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Environmental Controls on Microbial Diversity in Arctic Lakes of West Greenland

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We assessed the microbial community structure of six arctic lakes in West Greenland and investigated relationships to lake physical and chemical characteristics. Lakes from the ice sheet region exhibited the highest species richness, while inland and plateau lakes had lower observed taxonomical diversity. Lake habitat differentiation during summer stratification appeared to alter within lake microbial community composition in only a subset of lakes, while lake variability across regions was a consistent driver of microbial community composition in these arctic lakes. Principal coordinate analysis revealed differentiation of communities along two axes: each reflecting differences in morphometric (lake surface area), geographic (latitude and distance from the ice sheet), physical lake variables (water clarity), and lakewater chemistry (dissolved organic carbon [DOC], dissolved oxygen [DO], total nitrogen [TN], and conductivity). Understanding these relationships between environmental variables and microbial communities is especially important as heterotrophic microorganisms are key to organic matter decomposition, nutrient cycling, and carbon flow through nutrient poor aquatic environments in the Arctic.

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The nucleotide sequence data reported are available in the GenBank database under the accession number SRP160381.

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The authors thank the University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center DNA Sequencing Facility for providing 16S metagenomic sequencing facilities and services. We are sincerely grateful to Max Egener, Helen Schlimm, Benjamin Burpee, and Robert Northington for their field assistance.

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This research was funded by the Arctic System Science program of the US National Science Foundation (grant #1203434 to Jasmine Saros), the Churchill Discretionary Fund, the Center for Sustainability Education at Dickinson College, and Dickinson College Research and Development.

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Somers, D.J., Strock, K.E. & Saros, J.E. Environmental Controls on Microbial Diversity in Arctic Lakes of West Greenland. Microb Ecol 80, 60–72 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-019-01474-9

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