Effects of Recreational Boating on Microbial and Meiofauna Diversity in Coastal Shallow Ecosystems of the Baltic Sea. Meiofauna and bacterial communities, exposed to low and high levels of recreational boating activity

We investigated the impact of small boat activity on sediment-associated meio- and microbenthic community structure and composition using DNA-metabarcoding and examined the influence of local abiotic and biotic factors including bay morphometry and cover of submerged macrophytes

本研究采用DNA宏条形码（DNA-metabarcoding）技术，探究了小型船舶活动对沉积物附着型小型底栖生物（meiobenthos）与微型底栖生物（microbenthos）群落结构及组成的影响，并考察了局域非生物与生物因子——包括海湾形态计量特征与沉水植物盖度——的调控作用。