Gavin N. Rees

TL;DR: The knowledge base on how salinity affects the physical and biotic components of aquatic ecosystems is updated and the needs for information on how structure and function of aquaticcosystems change with increasing salinity are explored.

TL;DR: An approach is described that overcomes some of the problems associated with analyzing community datasets and offers an approach that makes data interpretation simple and effective and introduces a quantitative measure of sample dispersion that is suggested as an ideal coefficient to be used for the construction of similarity matrices.

TL;DR: It is found that making conclusions about the similarities of complex bacterial communities from T-RFLP profiles generated by a single restriction enzyme (RE) may lead to erroneous conclusions, so the use of multiple REs, each individually, to generate multiple data sets allowed us to determine a confidence estimate for groupings of apparently similar communities and at the same time minimized the effects of RE selection.

TL;DR: In this article, microcosm experiments were carried out to examine the acute effects of increasing salinity on the anaerobic cycling of carbon, nutrients (N, P, and S), metals (Fe and Mn), and microbial community structure in sediments from a non-salt-impacted freshwater wetland.

TL;DR: Phospholipid fatty acid profiles of the microbial communities growing on leaf extracts showed that different microbial communities developed in each oxygen concentration treatment suggesting that, irrespective of flood conditions, a microbial community will develop to utilize a significant proportion of the DOC leached from litter.