Freshwater sediment microbial communities are not resilient to disturbance from agricultural land runoff

• Main Authors: Beattie, Rachelle E., Bandla, Aditya, Swarup, Sanjay, Hristova, Krassimira R.
• Other Authors: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences; Resistance; Resilience
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145200
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Microorganisms are critically important for the function of surface water ecosystems but are frequently subjected to anthropogenic disturbances at either acute (pulse) or long-term (press) scales. Response and recovery of microbial community composition and function following pulse disturbance is we...