Erschienen:
American Society for Microbiology, 2019
Erschienen in:
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85 (2019) 5
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1128/aem.02346-18
ISSN:
0099-2240;
1098-5336
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Groundwater is a key resource for drinking water production and irrigation. The interplay between geological setting, hydrochemistry, carbon storage, and groundwater microbiome ecosystem functioning is crucial for our understanding of these important ecosystem services. We targeted the encoded and expressed metabolic potential of groundwater microbiomes along an aquifer transect that diversifies in terms of hydrochemistry and land use. Our results showed that the groundwater microbiome has a higher spatial differentiation potential than does hydrochemistry.