Although microbes mediate much of the biogeochemical cycling in freshwater, the categories
of carbon and nutrients currently used in models of freshwater biogeochemical cycling are …

Taxonomy assignment of freshwater microbial communities is limited by the minimally curated
phylogenies used for large taxonomy databases. Here we introduce TaxAss, a taxonomy …

Invasive species impart abrupt changes on ecosystems, but their impacts on microbial
communities are often overlooked. We paired a 20 y freshwater microbial community time series …

… Rohwer and Robert Ladwig contributed equally and are listed as co-first authors. … ), as well
as the season of cyanotoxin production (Rohwer et al. 2023a). We attribute an anoxic factor …

Microbes play a significant role in the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in the oceans,
yet little is known about the native bacteria that metabolize hydrocarbons before an oil spill. …

Taxonomic markers such as the 16S ribosomal RNA gene are widely used in microbial
community analysis. A common first step in marker-gene analysis is grouping genes into clusters …

Ecology and evolution are distinct theories, but the short lifespans and large population
sizes of microbes allow evolution to unfold along contemporary ecological time scales. To …

Species invasions can disrupt aquatic ecosystems by re-wiring food webs. A trophic
cascade triggered by the invasion of the predatory zooplankter spiny water flea (Bythotrephes …

{"Abstract":["The Lake Mendota Microbial Observatory collects routine water physical and
chemical\n measurements alongside their microbial samples. This dataset includes …

Lakes are focal points of biogeochemical cycling on the terrestrial landscape, and microbial
communities are the machines driving these processes. However, our view into how …