ArticleISME communications2026
Upwelling periodically disturbs the ecological assembly of microbial communities in Lake Ontario.
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- Novel AfricanJournal of virology · 2026Article
- Interpreting UniFrac with absolute abundance: a conceptual and practical guide.ISME communications · 2026Article
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Abstract
The Laurentian Great Lakes hold 21% of the world's surface freshwater and supply drinking water to nearly 40 million people. We provide the first evidence that wind-driven upwelling restructures microbial communities in Lake Ontario, with its effects sustained and redistributed by an internal Kelvin wave propagating along the shoreline. We combine 16S rRNA metabarcoding, absolute abundance quantification via flow cytometry, and hydrodynamic profiling to link physical processes to community composition. While thermal stratification organizes microbial communities by depth and season, this vertical structure arises from contrasting mechanisms: homogenizing selection in surface waters and dispersal limitation and drift in the hypolimnion. Kelvin wave-driven upwelling disrupts this scaffold, displacing rare taxa into the surface and creating novel coastal communities predicted to be enriched in methane oxidation and sulfur metabolism genes-functional traits absent elsewhere in the lake. We observed a Kelvin wave lasting over two weeks and propagating eastward at ~60 km day
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