Assembly and Network Stability of Planktonic Microorganisms under the Influence of Salinity Gradient: an Arctic Case Study from the Lena River Estuary to the Laptev Sea

• Published in: Microbiology Spectrum
• Main Authors: Liu, Qian, Li, Yan, Wang, Hualong, Yang, Guipeng, Kan, Jinjun, Yang, Mengyao, Yu, Xiaowen, Guo, Cui, Wang, Min, Wang, Wei, Zhang, Qingli, Zhu, Jiancheng, Zhao, Xianyong, Jiang, Yong
• Other Authors: Orlic, Sandi, MOST | National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, The Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Laptev Sea; laptev; lena river
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02115-22; https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.02115-22

The regime of the Laptev Sea depends closely on the runoff of the Lena River. Microorganisms are essential components of aquatic food webs and play a significant role in polar ecosystems.