What is it about?
This study evaluates the influence of two major tropical factors, land-use and rain on the sedimentary microbial communities of urban waterways.
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Why is it important?
This study provides a microbial metagenomic data set from urban waterway sediments that can serve as a reference for microbial ecology studies pertaining to urban environments. Land-use and rain being the two typical factors of tropical urban cities, studying them provides deep insights into the microbial communities behavior in urban waterways environment.
Perspectives
Land-use is a chronic pressure, which has a stronger influence on the assembly and functioning of microbial communities in urban waterways. In contrast, rain, which is an acute but regular disturbance, has a larger influence on the microbial communities during longer rain spells when compared to the short ones.
Gourvendu Saxena
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: Metagenomics Reveals the Influence of Land Use and Rain on the Benthic Microbial Communities in a Tropical Urban Waterway, mSystems, June 2018, ASM Journals,
DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00136-17.
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