Publications by authors named "Michael C Acreman"
The heterogeneous nature of lotic habitats plays an important role in the complex ecological and evolutionary processes that structure the microbial communities within them. Due to such complexity, our understanding of lotic microbial ecology still lacks conceptual frameworks for the ecological processes that shape these communities. We explored how bacterial community composition and underlying ecological assembly processes differ between lotic habitats by examining community composition and inferring community assembly processes across four major habitat types (free-living, particle-associated, biofilm on benthic stones and rocks, and sediment).
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- Environmental flows are crucial for maintaining healthy river ecosystems, especially in valuable areas threatened by climate change.
- The study focused on the Narew basin in northeastern Poland, using two hydrological models to evaluate changes in environmental flow due to projected climate scenarios.
- Results showed that climate change poses a moderate risk to environmental flows, with varying impacts across different sites; the models can assist water management and conservation strategies.