Bacterioplankton assemblages in coastal ponds reflect the influence of hydrology and geomorphological setting

Authors/Creators

Megan J. Huggett, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Christopher Kavazos, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Rachele Bernasconi, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Robert Czarnik, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Pierre Horwitz, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Abstract

The factors that shape microbial community assembly in aquatic ecosystems have been widely studied; yet it is still unclear how distinct communities within a connected landscape influence one another. Coastal lakes are recipients of, and thus are connected to, both marine and terrestrial environments. Thus, they may host microbial assemblages that reflect the relative degree of influence by, and connectivity to, either system. In order to address this idea, we interrogated microbial community diversity at 49 sites in seven ponds in two seasons in the Lake MacLeod basin, a system fed by seawater flowing inland through underground karst. Environmental and spatial variation within ponds explain

RAS ID

24859

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

6-2017

School

School of Science

Copyright

free_to_read

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Comments

Huggett, M. J., Kavazos, C. R. J., Bernasconi, R., Czarnik, R., & Horwitz, P. (2017). Bacterioplankton assemblages in coastal ponds reflect the influence of hydrology and geomorphological setting. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93(6), article fix067. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix067

Recommended Citation

Huggett, M. J., Kavazos, C., Bernasconi, R., Czarnik, R., & Horwitz, P. (2017). Bacterioplankton assemblages in coastal ponds reflect the influence of hydrology and geomorphological setting. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix067