Planktonic 16S rRNA data, bottom ferruginous/sulfate-rich water column of Lake Medard, NW Czechia

Lake Medard is a ferruginous and sulfate-rich post-mining water body (max depth 60 m) with anoxic conditions below 48 m water column depth. Due to its unique hydrochemical features, the lake is ideal to study early diagenesis in iron-rich sediments We conducted a taxonomic abundace analyses of prokaryote populations inhabiting the bottom redox-stratified water column. For this purpose, we used water samples retrieved from the hypolymnion and monimolimnion of Lake Medard in November 2019. This project was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (19-15096Y) to Daniel Petrash