Saulo M. S. Jacques

TL;DR: It is found that all of the bromeliads exhibited remarkably similar functional community structures, but that the taxonomic composition within individual functional groups was highly variable, and that non-neutral processes at least partly shaped the composition within functional groups and were more important than spatial dispersal limitation and demographic drift.

TL;DR: The structure of bacterial and archaeal communities inhabiting the detritus within the tanks of two bromeliad species, Aechmea nudicaulis and Neoregelia cruenta, from a Brazilian sand dune forest are investigated and taxonomic as well as functional microbial community structure are compared.

TL;DR: Results show that different environmental drivers impact bacterial processes at different scales, and changes of bacterial metabolism related to the increase of water temperature are consistent between lagoons, therefore their consequences can be predicted at a regional scale, while the effect of nutrient inputs is specific to different lagoon but seems to be related toThe DOC concentration.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the lack of grazing pressure on viral and bacterial populations is an important mechanism causing virus abundance to escalate with increasing salt concentrations is supported.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed data from 2 decades of studies on the carbon cycle in these coastal lagoons and discussed the fluctuations in the concentration and quality of DOC, factors affecting DOC microbial and photochemical degradation, CO2 emission, as well as the role of humic and non-humic carbon to the energy flow through the trophic chains.