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November 2019 - September 2023
September 2018 - January 2020
September 2015 - July 2018
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Biofilm-dwelling microorganisms coat the surfaces of stones in river and stream ecosystems, forming diverse communities that are fundamental to biogeochemical processes and ecosystem functioning 1,2 . Flowing water (lotic) ecosystems are under pressure from a wide range of interacting stressors including changes in land use, chemical pollution, and...
Full protocol for the extraction of DNA from river biofilm samples, 2-step PCR amplification of 16S rRNA, 18S rRNA, ITS2 and rbcL gene regions and amplicon sequencing.
Ecosystems are continuously responding to both natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Lake sediments preserve local and global evidence of these ecological transitions through time. This archived information can yield crucial insights through the reconstruction of past changes over hundreds to many thousands of years. This chapter provides...
Palaeolimnological records provide valuable information about how phytoplankton respond to long‐term drivers of environmental change. Traditional palaeolimnological tools such as microfossils and pigments are restricted to taxa that leave sub‐fossil remains, and a method that can be applied to the wider community is required. Sedimentary DNA (sedDN...
Palaeoclimate records are crucial for understanding the causes and rates of past climate change and informing predictions of future climate change. Palaeoenvironmental records of microbial communities are important for understanding the ecological impacts of climatic and environmental change due to their position near the base of many food webs, ro...
Palaeolimnological records provide valuable information about how phytoplankton respond to long-term drivers of environmental change. Traditional palaeolimnological tools such as microfossils and pigments are restricted to taxa that leave sub-fossil remains, and a method that can be applied to the wider community is required. Sedimentary DNA (sedDN...
Microbial communities play important roles in lake ecosystems and are sensitive to environmental change. However, our understanding of their responses to long‐term change such as eutrophication is limited, as long‐term lake monitoring is rare, and traditional paleolimnological techniques (pigments and microfossils) are restricted to a low taxonomic...
3-Hydroxy fatty acids (3-OH-FAs), derived from Gram-negative bacterial outer membranes, have received recent attention for their potential as new terrestrial pH and temperature proxies for palaeoclimate studies. Initial studies from altitudinal transects of contemporary soils - correlating bacterial 3-OH-FA compositions to air temperature and pH -...
