The Relationship between Microbial Community Evenness and Function in Slow Sand Filters

ABSTRACT Two full-scale slow sand filters (SSFs) were sampled periodically from April until November 2011 to study the spatial and temporal structures of the bacterial communities found in the filters. To monitor global changes in the microbial communities, DNA from sand samples taken at different d...

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Main Authors: Sarah-Jane Haig, Christopher Quince, Robert L. Davies, Caetano C. Dorea, Gavin Collins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015-10-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00729-15