Lake microbial communities are resilient after a whole-ecosystem disturbance

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2153-2167

  Shade, Ashley ^a,g   Read, Jordan S ^b   Youngblut, Nicholas D ^c   Fierer, Noah ^d   Knight, Rob ^d,e   Kratz, Timothy K ^a   Lottig, Noah R ^a   Roden, Eric E ^f   Stanley, Emily H ^a   Stombaugh, Jesse ^d   Whitaker, Rachel J ^c   Wu, Chin H ^b   McMahon, Katherine D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Center for Limnology ^*  (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; RNA 16S; WATER;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EPILIMNION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYPOLIMNION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; LAKES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84871329250     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.56     Document Type: Article

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