Abstract:Karst rivers are highly susceptible to environmental disturbance due to their robust hydraulic connectivity. However, current knowledge of the mechanisms that regulate the assembly of bacterial and protistan subcommunities in river ecosystems, particularly in karst regions, is limited. By employing 16S and 18S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we explored how the diversities and assembly of abundant and rare bacterial and protistan subcommunities adapt to the local environmental variables in a karst river. Both b… Show more
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