Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical potential at the watershed scale
P. B. Matheus Carnevali, A. Lavy, A. D. Thomas, A. Crits-Christoph, S. Diamond, R. Meeheust, M. R. Olm, A. Sharrar, S. Lei, W. Dong, N. Falco, N. Bouskill, M. Newcomer, P. Nico, H. Wainwright, , J. F. Banfield
The paper investigates microbial metabolic potential in floodplain soils along a river corridor, finding that meander-bound regions predict biogeochemical capacities at the watershed scale.
Microbiome · May 22, 2021Peer-reviewedMicrobiology