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Functional microbial diversity explains groundwater chemistry in a pristine aquifer

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Microbiology, June 2013
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Title
Functional microbial diversity explains groundwater chemistry in a pristine aquifer
Published in
BMC Microbiology, June 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2180-13-146
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Theodore M Flynn, Robert A Sanford, Hodon Ryu, Craig M Bethke, Audrey D Levine, Nicholas J Ashbolt, Jorge W Santo Domingo

Abstract

The diverse microbial populations that inhabit pristine aquifers are known to catalyze critical in situ biogeochemical reactions, yet little is known about how the structure and diversity of this subsurface community correlates with and impacts upon groundwater chemistry. Herein we examine 8,786 bacterial and 8,166 archaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences from an array of monitoring wells in the Mahomet aquifer of east-central Illinois. Using multivariate statistical analyses we provide a comparative analysis of the relationship between groundwater chemistry and the microbial communities attached to aquifer sediment along with those suspended in groundwater.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 5%
Chile 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 159 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 51 29%
Researcher 32 18%
Student > Master 21 12%
Student > Bachelor 13 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 5%
Other 27 16%
Unknown 21 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 48 28%
Environmental Science 36 21%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 20 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 9%
Engineering 9 5%
Other 19 11%
Unknown 26 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 November 2017.
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#6,432,960
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Outputs from BMC Microbiology
#690
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Outputs of similar age
#53,634
of 198,175 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Microbiology
#8
of 31 outputs
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