Impact of climate change on microbial biodiversity Recommendation by @MIZAUCV
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December 2016.
From University of Helsinki.
The results are just published in the journal
Nature Communications.
We still know fairly little about the specific impacts of climate change and human activity,
such as nutrient
enrichment of waterways, on broad geographical scales.
Researchers from the
Department of Geosciences and
Geography at the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Environment Institute, and the Nanjing
Institute of Geography
and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences have studied hundreds of microcosms in
mountainous regions with
the aid of natural temperature gradients in the studied areas, while modifying the
enrichment level in field tests.
The results indicate that the bacteria in elevated tropical areas are similar to e.g.
those in
arctic areas.
As a result of
changes in temperature and aquatic enrichment, significant alterations occur in the
microcosms, and as the
enrichment increases, biodiversity reduces, says Associate Professor Janne Soininen.
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