Wen-Dong Xian, Junjie Ding, Jinhui Chen, Wu Qu, Pinglin Cao, Chunyu Tang, Xuezhu Liu, Yiying Zhang, Jia-Ling Li, Pandeng Wang, Wen-Jun Li, Jianxin Wang
The estuarine system functions as natural filters due to its ability to facilitate material transformation, planktonic bacteria play a crucial role in the cycling of complex nutrients and pollutants within estuaries, and understanding the community composition and assembly therein is crucial for comprehending bacterial ecology within estuaries. Despite extensive investigations into the composition and community assembly of two bacterial fractions (free-living, FLB; particle-attached, PAB), the process by which bacterioplankton communities in these two habitats assemble in the nearshore and offshore zones of estuarine ecosystems remains poorly understood...
February 14, 2024: Microbial Ecology