TY  - JOUR
A1  - Numberger, Daniela
A1  - Zoccarato, Luca
A1  - Woodhouse, Jason Nicholas
A1  - Ganzert, Lars
A1  - Sauer, Sascha
A1  - García Márquez, Jaime Ricardo
A1  - Domisch, Sami
A1  - Grossart, Hans-Peter
A1  - Greenwood, Alex
T1  - Urbanization promotes specific bacteria in freshwater microbiomes including potential pathogens
JF  - The science of the total environment : an international journal for scientific research into the environment and its relationship with man
N2  - Freshwater ecosystems are characterized by complex and highly dynamic microbial communities that are strongly structured by their local environment and biota. Accelerating urbanization and growing city populations detrimentally alter freshwater environments. To determine differences in freshwater microbial communities associated with urban-ization, full-length 16S rRNA gene PacBio sequencing was performed in a case study from surface waters and sedi-ments from a wastewater treatment plant, urban and rural lakes in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, Northeast Germany. Water samples exhibited highly habitat specific bacterial communities with multiple genera showing clear urban signatures. We identified potentially harmful bacterial groups associated with environmental parameters specific to urban habitats such as Alistipes, Escherichia/Shigella, Rickettsia and Streptococcus. We demonstrate that urban-ization alters natural microbial communities in lakes and, via simultaneous warming and eutrophication and creates favourable conditions that promote specific bacterial genera including potential pathogens. Our findings are evidence to suggest an increased potential for long-term health risk in urbanized waterbodies, at a time of rapidly expanding global urbanization. The results highlight the urgency for undertaking mitigation measures such as targeted lake restoration projects and sustainable water management efforts.
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Urban waters
KW  - Wastewater
KW  - Lakes
KW  - Microbial community
KW  - composition
KW  - Humanization
KW  - Full-length 16S rRNA PacBio sequencing
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157321
SN  - 0048-9697
SN  - 1879-1026
VL  - 845
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -