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Table 1 Coupled effects of environmental factors and phytoplankton communities on the bacterial communities of the water columns

From: Abiotic environmental factors override phytoplankton succession in shaping both free-living and attached bacterial communities in a highland lake

System

Response variables

Predicted variables

References

Five lakes, Sweden

Bacterial abundance (DGGE band number)

Nutrient content of the lakes, biomasses of microzooplankton, cryptophytes and chrysophytes

Lindström (2000)

Five mesotrophic lakes, Sweden

Bacterial abundance (DGGE band number)

T, diatom biomass, and cryptophyte biomass

Lindström (2001)

Lake Toolik, Alaska

Bacterial abundance (16S rRNA gene sequences of bacteria)

DOC (released by phytoplankton)

Crump et al. (2003)

Thirteen lakes in Wisconsin, USA

Bacterial abundance (ARISA fragment richness)

DOC, Chl a and WT

Yannarell and Triplett (2004)

Six north temperate humic lakes in Wisconsin, USA

Bacterial abundance (ARISA fragment richness)

Meteorological, environmental and biological data set

Kent et al. (2007)

Thirty-five rock pools at the Baltic Sea coast, Sweden

Bacterial abundance (T-RFLP data)

Spatial variables, salinity, Chl a, and water color

Langenheder and Ragnarsson (2007)

Lake Taihu, China

Bacterial abundance (16S rRNA gene sequences of the bacteria)

Biomass of phytoplankton and WT

Niu et al. (2011)

Lake Taihu, China

Bacteria diversity (Shannon) and species richness (DGGE band number)

The similarities of Microcystis-associated, settling particle-associated and free-living bacteria

Shi et al. (2012)

Lake Erie, USA

Bacterial abundance (OTU richness)

Chl a, pH, temperature

Berry et al. (2017)

Two north temperate humic lakes in Vilas County, Wisconsin

Bacterial diversity (Bray–Curtis similarities)

Light, temperature, and phytoplankton

Paver and Kent (2017)