Spatio-temporal dynamics of bacterial communities in the shoreline of Laurentian great Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair's large freshwater ecosystems.
Abdolrazagh Hashemi ShahrakiSubba Rao ChagantiDaniel D HeathPublished in: BMC microbiology (2021)
As bacteria play a key role in biogeochemical cycling, and hence in healthy ecosystem function our study defines the scope for temporal and spatial variation in large lake ecosystems. Our data also show that freshwater BCC could serve as an effective proxy and monitoring tool to access large lake health.