{"id":5769,"date":"2017-07-17T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2017-07-17T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:42:40","slug":"biodiversity-in-shallow-arctic-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/biodiversity-in-shallow-arctic-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity in shallow Arctic lakes "},"content":{"rendered":"

Shallow Arctic lakes that remain unfrozen throughout the year contain more diverse biofilms than lakes that freeze up for a period of time, a new study has found. Researchers analyzed the genetic material of biofilm\u2014which is\u00a0a group of microorganisms that stick to one another, forming a so-called “microbial mat” on the surface of a lake\u2014in Ward Hunt Lake. Their analysis aimed to distinguish the effect of the changes from seasonally frozen to perennially unfrozen conditions on the microbiome structure of Arctic biofilm. They discovered that biofilms in perennially liquid lakes favor anaerobic processes, which is likely to increase methane production and nitrogen consumption. The latter may have large implications for the global carbon and nitrogen budgets.<\/p>\n

Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vani Mohit, Alexander Culley, Connie Lovejoy, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bouchard & Warwick F. Vincent<\/p>\n

Corresponding author:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Warwick Vincent, D\u00e9partement de biologie & Centre d\u2019\u00e9tudes nordiques (CEN), Universit\u00e9 Laval, QC, Email:\u00a0warwick.vincent@bio.ulaval.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Original paper <\/a>published in npj:\u00a0Biofilms & Microbiomes<\/em> on July 6, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shallow Arctic lakes that remain unfrozen throughout the year contain more diverse biofilms than lakes that freeze up for a period of time, a new study has found. Researchers analyzed the genetic material of biofilm\u2014which is\u00a0a group of microorganisms that stick to one another, forming a so-called “microbial mat” on the surface of a lake\u2014in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[185,3092,3094,3093],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-arctic","tag-biofilm","tag-biomes","tag-microbiomes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1v3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5770,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions\/5770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}