Warming Climate Is Reducing the Diversity of Dominant Microbes in the Largest High Arctic Lake

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Graham A. Colby, Matti O. Ruuskanen, Kyra A. St.Pierre, Vincent L. St.Louis, Alexandre J. Poulain, Stéphane Aris-Brosou
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
• Subjects: high arctic; microbial ecology; metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs); high-throughput sequencing; climate change; Microbiology; QR1-502; Arctic; Arctic Lake; Canada; Lake Hazen; Climate change; glacier*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.561194; https://doaj.org/article/00c0f2bd14a24a758432d5c81047663c

Temperatures in the Arctic are expected to increase dramatically over the next century, and transform high latitude watersheds. However, little is known about how microbial communities and their underlying metabolic processes will be affected by these environmental changes in freshwater sedimentary...