Global biogeography of the glacier-fed stream microbiome

L Ezzat, H Peter, M Bourquin… - EGU General …, 2023 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Glacier-fed streams (GFSs) serve as headwaters to many of the world's largest river
networks. Although being characterized by extreme environmental conditions (ie, low water …

Towards a global biogeography of the glacier-fed stream benthic microbiome

TJ Battin, L Ezzat, H Peter, M Bourquin, G Michoud… - 2023 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
Nearly 60% of the world's glaciers are predicted to be lost by the end of the century because
of global warming1. The impacts of this environmental change on the glacier-fed stream …

The microbial genomics of glacier-fed streams: adaptations to an extreme ecosystem

M Bourquin - 2024 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Glacier-fed streams are the cold, ultra-oligotrophic, and unstable streams that are fed by
glacial meltwater. Despite these extreme conditions, they harbour a diverse and abundant …

Microdiversity characterizes prevalent phylogenetic clades in the glacier-fed stream microbiome

S Fodelianakis, AD Washburne, M Bourquin… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Glacier-fed streams (GFSs) are extreme and rapidly vanishing ecosystems, and yet they
harbor diverse microbial communities. Although our understanding of the GFS microbiome …

Unexpected functional diversity of stream biofilms within and across proglacial floodplains despite close spatial proximity

G Michoud, TJ Kohler, H Peter… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High‐mountain streams are particularly vulnerable to climate change because they
intimately interface with the cryosphere. As glaciers shrink and snowpack diminishes …

Microbial biodiversity in glacier-fed streams

L Wilhelm, GA Singer, C Fasching, TJ Battin… - The ISME …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
While glaciers become increasingly recognised as a habitat for diverse and active microbial
communities, effects of their climate change-induced retreat on the microbial ecology of …

Predicting the global response of the glacier-fed streams and their bacterial microbiome to climate change

M Bourquin, H Peter, A Lean Robison… - EGU General …, 2023 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Glaciers are receding worldwide because of climate change, and as a consequence, glacier-
fed streams are expected to undergo deep physical and chemical changes in the future …

Leveraging species distribution models to predict the impact of climate change on glacier-fed stream biofilms

M Bourquin, HM Peter, AL Robison, L Ezzat… - INTECOL …, 2022 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Owing to climate changes, glaciers and ice sheets are rapidly shrinking worldwide, altering
the geophysical properties of many ecosystems. In this context, glacier-fed streams are …

Homogeneous selection promotes microdiversity in the glacier-fed stream microbiome

S Fodelianakis, AD Washburne, M Bourquin… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Microdiversity, the organization of microorganisms into groups with closely related but
ecologically different sub-types, is widespread and represents an important linchpin …

Bacterial diversity in a continuum from supraglacial habitats to a proglacial lake on the Tibetan Plateau

T Xing, K Liu, M Ji, Y Chen, Y Liu - FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Mountain glaciers are frequently assessed for their hydrological connectivity from glaciers to
proglacial lakes. Ecological process on glacier surfaces and downstream ecosystems have …