Although bacteria play key roles in aquatic food webs and biogeochemical cycles, information on the seasonal succession of bacterial communities in lakes is still far from complete. Here, we report results of an integrative study on the successional trajectories of bacterial communities in a seasonally stratified lake with an anoxic hypolimnion. The bacterial community composition of epilimnion...

A risk assessment of vegetation zone responses to climate change was conducted using the classical Holdridge life zone model on the Loess Plateau of Northwest China. The results show that there are currently ten vegetation zones occurring on the Loess Plateau (1950–2000), including alvar desert, alpine wet tundra, alpine rain tundra, boreal moist forest, boreal wet forest, cool temperate desert...

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introduction the lulak abad iron occurrence is located in the northwestern part of the central iran, 55 km west of zanjan. mineralization at the lulak abad area was originally identified by zamin gostar company (2007), during a geophysical exploration. the present paper provides an overview of the geological framework, the mineralization characteristics, and the results of a geochemical study o...

A gram-positive branched bacterium isolated from a trichloroethylene-degrading consortium mineralized vinyl chloride in growing cultures and cell suspensions. Greater than 67% of the [1,2-14C]vinyl chloride was mineralized to carbon dioxide, with approximately 10% of the radioactivity appearing in cell biomass and another 10% appearing in 14C-aqueous-phase products.

neyshabour turquoise mine is located in northwest of neyshabour, southern quchan volcanic belt. eocene andesite and dacite forming as lava and pyroclastic rocks cover most of the area. subvolcanic diorite to syenite porphyry (granitoids of magnetite series) intruded the volcanic rocks. both volcanic and subvolcanic rocks are highly altered. four types of alteration are recognized including: sil...

Undoubtedly, involving more tools, datasets, and techniques for detecting the mineralized areas sharply narrow zones to be investigated delivered, in most cases highly potential zones. Consequently, this study is an attempt apply remote sensing data including Sentinel 2 ASTER, field observations, petrography of hydrothermal alteration processes, ore microscopic investigations, X-ray examination...