Microbial community structure and function in Canadian Prairie groundwater ecosystems.
- Ruff, S Emil
DOIAbstract
Groundwater ecosystems are globally widespread yet still poorly understood. The goal of the study was to understand the links between the biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of groundwater ecosystems in diverse geological settings on a broad spatial scale. We investigated the age, aqueous geochemistry, and microbiology of >100 groundwater samples from 90 monitoring wells (<250m depth) located in 14 aquifers in the Canadian Prairie. Geochemistry and microbial ecology were tightly linked revealing large-scale aerobic and anaerobic hydrogen, methane, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling carried out by diverse microbial communities. Details concerning methods, results and conclusions can be found in the associated publication by Ruff et al. 2023
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