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in: Freshwater Researches: Fundamentals, Trends and Perspectives, Meriç Albay,Emine Gözde Özbayram,Zeynep Dorak,Reyhan Akçaalan, Editor, Istanbul University, İstanbul, pp.1-20, 2024
The bacterial community has a crucial role in the ecosystem’s well-being, contributing to biogeochemical
cycles, including carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus as well as organic matter degradations. The community pattern
differs spatially due to various factors such as distinctive environmental conditions, land usage, anthropogenic
activities, etc. The use of molecular biology tools is becoming a key approach to evaluating complex bacterial
community structures. The advanced metagenomics databases, powerful bioinformatics, and statistical tools enable
us to get valuable insights into bacterial metabolic functions. Understanding the complexity of bacterial communities
is vitally important to assess the impacts of certain niches on the ecosystem. This chapter focuses on the bacterial
communities in freshwater resources and reveal their diversity in these ecosystems.