Nitrate determines the bacterial habitat specialization and impacts microbial functions in a subsurface karst cave

Karst caves are usually considered as natural laboratories to study pristine microbiomes in subsurface biosphere. However, effects of the increasingly detected nitrate in underground karst ecosystem due to the acid rain impact on microbiota and their functions in subsurface karst caves have remained...

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Main Authors: Xiaoyan Liu, Hongmei Wang, Weiqi Wang, Xiaoyu Cheng, Yiheng Wang, Qing Li, Lu Li, Liyuan Ma, Xiaolu Lu, Olli H. Tuovinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1115449/full