How Does Environmental Inter-annual Variability Shape Aquatic Microbial Communities? : A 40-Year Annual Record of Sedimentary DNA From a Boreal Lake (Nylandssjon, Sweden)

• Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Capo, Eric, Rydberg, Johan, Tolu, Julie, Domaizon, Isabelle, Debroas, Didier, Bindler, Richard, Bigler, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap 2019
• Subjects: varved sediment record; sedimentary DNA; protists; metabarcoding; meteorological data; inorganic geochemistry; organic proxies; paleolimnology; Physical Geography; Naturgeografi; Arctic; Boreal Lake; Climate change
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-161823; https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00245

To assess the sensitivity of lakes to anthropogenically-driven environmental changes (e.g., nutrient supply, climate change), it is necessary to first isolate the effects of between-year variability in weather conditions. This variability can strongly impact a lake's biological community especi...