Bacterial metacommunity organization in a highly connected aquatic system

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• Main Authors: Langenheder, Silke, Wang, Jianjun, Karjalainen, Satu Maaria, Laamanen, Tiina M., Tolonen, Kimmo T., Vilmi, Annika, Heino, Jani
• Other Authors: Department of Geosciences and Geography
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2017
• Subjects: metacommunities; community assembly; lakes; biofilms; bacteria; alpha diversity; beta diversity; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; BETA-DIVERSITY; BACTERIOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES; STOCHASTIC-PROCESSES; ASSEMBLY PROCESSES; NULL MODELS; PATTERNS; SCALES; DISSIMILARITY; 1183 Plant biology; microbiology; virology; 1172 Environmental sciences; Assembly Lakes; Northern Finland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/214437

The spatial structure and underlying assembly mechanisms of bacterial communities have been studied widely across aquatic systems, focusing primarily on isolated sites, such as different lakes, ponds and streams. Here, our main aim was to determine the underlying mechanisms for bacterial biofilm ass...