Bacterial Community Assembly in a Typical Estuarine Marsh with Multiple Environmental Gradients.
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SUBMITTER: Yao Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6414364 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
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Bacterial Community Assembly in a Typical Estuarine Marsh with Multiple Environmental Gradients.
Yao Zhiyuan Z Du Shicong S Liang Chunling C Zhao Yueji Y Dini-Andreote Francisco F Wang Kai K Zhang Demin D
Applied and environmental microbiology 20190306 6
Bacterial communities play essential roles in estuarine marsh ecosystems, but the interplay of ecological processes underlying their community assembly is poorly understood. Here, we studied the sediment bacterial communities along a linear gradient extending from the water-land junction toward a high marsh, using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Bacterial community compositions differed significantly between sediment transects. Physicochemical properties, particularly sediment nutrient levels ...[more]
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