Science goals and objectives for the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft relocatable lander

JW Barnes, EP Turtle, MG Trainer… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a rotorcraft lander to the surface of Titan in the mid-
2030s. Dragonfly's science themes include investigation of Titan's prebiotic chemistry …

Salinity shapes microbial diversity and community structure in surface sediments of the Qinghai-Tibetan Lakes

J Yang, L Ma, H Jiang, G Wu, H Dong - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Investigating microbial response to environmental variables is of great importance for
understanding of microbial acclimatization and evolution in natural environments. However …

Distribution of sediment bacterial and archaeal communities in plateau freshwater lakes

J Zhang, Y Yang, L Zhao, Y Li, S Xie, Y Liu - Applied Microbiology and …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Both Bacteria and Archaea might be involved in various biogeochemical processes
in lacustrine sediment ecosystems. However, the factors governing the intra-lake distribution …

Fungal–bacterial dynamics and their contribution to terrigenous carbon turnover in relation to organic matter quality

J Fabian, S Zlatanovic, M Mutz, K Premke - The ISME journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Ecological functions of fungal and bacterial decomposers vary with environmental
conditions. However, the response of these decomposers to particulate organic matter …

Spatiotemporal variation of planktonic and sediment bacterial assemblages in two plateau freshwater lakes at different trophic status

Y Dai, Y Yang, Z Wu, Q Feng, S Xie, Y Liu - Applied Microbiology and …, 2016 - Springer
Both planktonic and sediment bacterial assemblages are the important components of
freshwater lake ecosystems. However, their spatiotemporal shift and the driving forces …

Fatty acid composition of consumers in boreal lakes–variation across species, space and time

DCP Lau, T Vrede, J Pickova… - Freshwater Biology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Fatty acids (FAs) have been widely applied as trophic biomarkers in aquatic food web
studies. However, current knowledge of inter‐and intraspecific variation in consumer FA …

[HTML][HTML] Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis as a tool to estimate absolute abundances from compositional 16S rRNA bacterial metabarcoding data

N Lewe, S Hermans, G Lear, LT Kelly… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial biodiversity monitoring through the analysis of DNA extracted from environmental
samples is increasingly popular because it is perceived as being rapid, cost-effective, and …

Constrained microbial processing of allochthonous organic carbon in boreal lake sediments

C Gudasz, D Bastviken, K Premke… - Limnology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated sediment bacterial metabolism in eight lakes with different inputs of
allochthonous and autochthonous organic carbon in south‐central Sweden. Sediment …

Methane carbon supports aquatic food webs to the fish level

AM Sanseverino, D Bastviken, I Sundh, J Pickova… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane (CH4) are produced by anaerobic
mineralization of organic matter in lakes. In spite of extensive freshwater CH4 emissions …

Bacterial abundance and physicochemical characteristics of water and sediment associated with hydroelectric dam on the Lancang River China

X Luo, X Xiang, G Huang, X Song, P Wang… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Research on bacterial abundance in water column and sediment of dammed rivers remain
poorly understood, despite their importance to biogeochemical processes, benthic ecology …