Bacterial diversity along a 2 600 km river continuum
Domenico Savio, Lucas Sinclair, Umer Z. Ijaz, Philipp Stadler, Alfred P. Blaschke, Georg H. Reischer, Guenter Blöschl, Robert L. Mach, Alexander K.T. Kirschner, Andreas H. Farnleitner, Alexander Eiler
This study examines bacterial diversity along a 2600 km river continuum, finding that richness and evenness decline downriver with shifts in community composition.
bioRxiv · Dec 22, 2014 · Preprint