Both AgNP treatments resulted in slower initial community shifts than that observed with the Ag+ treatment.
The results suggest that a continuous annual application of agrochemicals would cause further plant community shifts.
New studies increasingly document how species and community shifts influence ecosystem processes.
This is what microbiome scientists call dysbiosis – a state where the entire microbial community shifts into a harmful configuration.
Pyrosequencing provided taxonomic information about the overall bacterial community, and detected community shifts resulting from different cropping practices.
Results suggest that exposure to oxygen more strongly influenced microbial community shifts than the different microbial community management strategies.
The long-term exposure (13 days) to 10 mg/L shock load of ZnO or TiO2 NPs caused no substantial microbial community shifts in the activated sludge.
Pratchett, M., Trapon, M., Berumen, M. & Chong-Seng, K. Recent disturbances augment community shifts in coral assemblages in Moorea, French Polynesia.
Meyer, J. L., Paul, V. J. & Teplitski, M. Community shifts in the surface microbiomes of the coral Porites astreoides with unusual lesions.
Crump, B. C., Kling, G. W., Bahr, M. & Hobbie, J. E. Bacterioplankton community shifts in an arctic lake correlate with seasonal changes in organic matter source.
Subsurface microbial community shifts in biomass and community structure correlated with, and were likely driven by, decreasing soil P availability and Ca concentrations, respectively.
