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Bacterioplankton seasonality in deep high-mountain lakes.

ABSTRACT: Due to global warming, shorter ice cover duration might drastically affect the ecology of lakes currently undergoing seasonal surface freezing. High-mountain lakes show snow-rich ice covers that determine contrasting conditions between ice-off and ice-on periods. We characterized the bacterioplankton seasonality in a deep high-mountain lake ice-covered for half a year. The lake shows a rich core bacterioplankton community consisting of three components: (i) an assemblage stable throughout the year, dominated by Actinobacteria, resistant to all environmental conditions; (ii) an ice-on-resilient assemblage dominating during the ice-covered period, which is more diverse than the other components and includes a high abundance of Verrucomicrobia; the deep hypolimnion constitutes a refuge for many of the typical under-ice taxa, many of which recover quickly during autumn mixing; and (iii) an ice-off-resilient assemblage, which members peak in summer in epilimnetic waters when the rest decline, characterized by a dominance of Flavobacterium, and Limnohabitans. The rich core community and low random elements compared to other relatively small cold lakes can be attributed to its simple hydrological network in a poorly-vegetated catchment, the long water-residence time (ca. 4 years), and the long ice-cover duration; features common to many headwater deep high-mountain lakes.

SUBMITTER: Zufiaurre A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9519062 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bacterioplankton seasonality in deep high-mountain lakes.

Zufiaurre Aitziber A Felip Marisol M Camarero Lluís L Sala-Faig Marc M Juhanson Jaanis J Bonilla-Rosso German G Hallin Sara S Catalan Jordi J

Frontiers in microbiology 20220914

Due to global warming, shorter ice cover duration might drastically affect the ecology of lakes currently undergoing seasonal surface freezing. High-mountain lakes show snow-rich ice covers that determine contrasting conditions between ice-off and ice-on periods. We characterized the bacterioplankton seasonality in a deep high-mountain lake ice-covered for half a year. The lake shows a rich core bacterioplankton community consisting of three components: (i) an assemblage stable throughout the ye ...[more]

PMID: 36187988

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Bacterioplankton seasonality in deep high-mountain lakes.

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