<div><p>River-floodplain systems are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems, but the effects of biophysical complexity at multiple scales on microbial biodiversity have not been studied. Here, we investigated how the hierarchical organization of river systems (i.e., region, floodplain, zone, habitats, and microhabitats) influences epilithic biofilm community assemblage patterns by characterizing microbial communities using 16S rRNA gene sequence data and analyzing bacterial species distribution across local and regional scales. Results indicate that regional and local environmental filters concurrently sort bacterial species, suggesting that spatial configuration of epilithic biofilms resembles patterns of larger organisms in floo...
Biofilms represent a metabolically active and structurally complex component of freshwater ecosystem...
Small-scale hydraulics affects microbial behaviour at the cell level1, trophic interactions in marin...
The loss of environmental heterogeneity threatens biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. It is ther...
River-floodplain systems are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems, but the effects of bi...
River-floodplain systems are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems, but the effects of bi...
Streams are highly heterogeneous ecosystems, in terms of both geomorphology and hydrodynamics. While...
Epilithic river biofilms are complex matrix-enclosed communities harboring a great diversity of prok...
Streams and rivers form conspicuous networks on the Earth and are among nature's most effective inte...
River floodplains are spatially diverse ecosystems that respond quickly to flow variations and distu...
<p>Data points for each river-floodplain system represent mean values ± SEM of Shannon-Wiener (A) an...
<p>Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) of biofilm (i.e., bacteria and cyanobacteria), bacteria, an...
Abstract Water-column bacterial communities are assembled by different mechanisms at different stre...
The heterogeneous nature of lotic habitats plays an important role in the complex ecological and evo...
Microbial communities orchestrate most biogeochemical processes on Earth. In streams and rivers, sur...
In the natural environment, microbial community structure of river biofilm is controlled by biotic a...
Biofilms represent a metabolically active and structurally complex component of freshwater ecosystem...
Small-scale hydraulics affects microbial behaviour at the cell level1, trophic interactions in marin...
The loss of environmental heterogeneity threatens biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. It is ther...
River-floodplain systems are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems, but the effects of bi...
River-floodplain systems are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems, but the effects of bi...
Streams are highly heterogeneous ecosystems, in terms of both geomorphology and hydrodynamics. While...
Epilithic river biofilms are complex matrix-enclosed communities harboring a great diversity of prok...
Streams and rivers form conspicuous networks on the Earth and are among nature's most effective inte...
River floodplains are spatially diverse ecosystems that respond quickly to flow variations and distu...
<p>Data points for each river-floodplain system represent mean values ± SEM of Shannon-Wiener (A) an...
<p>Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) of biofilm (i.e., bacteria and cyanobacteria), bacteria, an...
Abstract Water-column bacterial communities are assembled by different mechanisms at different stre...
The heterogeneous nature of lotic habitats plays an important role in the complex ecological and evo...
Microbial communities orchestrate most biogeochemical processes on Earth. In streams and rivers, sur...
In the natural environment, microbial community structure of river biofilm is controlled by biotic a...
Biofilms represent a metabolically active and structurally complex component of freshwater ecosystem...
Small-scale hydraulics affects microbial behaviour at the cell level1, trophic interactions in marin...
The loss of environmental heterogeneity threatens biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. It is ther...