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Relationships between bacterial diversity and environmental variables in a tropical marine environment, Rio de Janeiro.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2008
Vieira Ricardo P, Gonzalez Alessandra M, Cardoso Alexander M, Oliveira Denise N, Albano Rodolpho M, Clementino Maysa M, Martins Orlando B, Paranhos Rodolfo
Abstract excerpt
This study is the first to apply a comparative analysis of environmental chemistry, microbiological parameters and bacterioplankton 16S rRNA clone libraries from different areas of a 50 km transect along a trophic gradient in the tropical Guanabara Bay ecosystem. Higher bacterial diversity was found in the coastal area, whereas lower richness was observed in the more polluted inner bay water. The significance of...
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