Climate warming alters glacier-fed stream ecosystems worldwide epfl_en NatureComms
," says Prof. Tom Battin, the head of RIVER and the corresponding author for both publications.
Stream at the foot of the Shkhelda glacier, in the Caucasus, photographed by the RIVER Laboratory team who took biofilm samples. Credit: Matteo Tolosano/ EPFL In addition to this discovery, the study sheds new light on what has previously been a black box: the microbiome inside these ecosystems. The scientists now have a better understanding of how the different microorganisms compete or help each other survive in such a nutrient-poor environment with alternating periods of freezing, melting and strong UV radiation.
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