Environmental controls and habitat connectivity of phototrophic microbial mats and bacterioplankton communities in an Antarctic freshwater system
J. Ramoneda, I. Hawes, A. Pascual-Garcia, T. J. Mackey, D. Y. Sumner, A. D. Jungblut
The paper examines microbial community structure in Antarctic freshwater systems, finding environmental filtering dominates over dispersal in shaping bacterial communities despite connectivity.
bioRxiv · Jul 13, 2020Ecology