Microbial communities can predict the ecological condition of headwater streams.

Humanity's reliance on clean water and the ecosystem services provided makes identifying efficient and effective ways to assess the ecological condition of streams ever more important. We used high throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA region to explore relationships between stream microbial co...

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Main Authors: Robert H Hilderbrand, Stephen R Keller, Sarah M Laperriere, Alyson E Santoro, Jason Cessna, Regina Trott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236932