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Effects of Farmhouse Hotel and Paper Mill Effluents on Bacterial Community Structures in Sediment and Surface Water of Nanxi River, China

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The pyrosequencing technique was used to evaluate bacterial community structures in sediment and surface water samples taken from Nanxi River receiving effluents from a paper mill and a farmhouse hotel, respectively. For each sample, 4,610 effective bacterial sequences were selected and used to do the analysis of diversity and abundance, respectively. Bacterial phylotype richness in the sediment sample without effluent input was higher than the other samples, and the surface water sample with addition of effluent from the paper mill contained the least richness. Effluents from both the paper mill and farmhouse hotel have a potential to reduce the bacterial diversity and abundance in the sediment and surface water, especially it is more significant in the sediment. The effect of the paper mill effluent on the sediment and surface water bacterial communities was more serious than that of the farmhouse hotel effluent. Characterization of microbial community structures in the sediment and surface water from two tributaries of the downstream river indicated that various effluents from the paper mill and farmhouse hotel have the similar potential to decrease the natural variability in riverine microbial ecosystems.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Foundation of Zhejiang Educational Committee (No. Y201224611), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2013M541647), and the Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds (No. 1302130C).

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Lu, XM., Lu, PZ. Effects of Farmhouse Hotel and Paper Mill Effluents on Bacterial Community Structures in Sediment and Surface Water of Nanxi River, China. Microb Ecol 68, 773–784 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-014-0456-8

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