Fig. 1: The ‘greening’ of the world’s glacier-fed streams impacts the microbiome.
From: Predicting climate-change impacts on the global glacier-fed stream microbiome
A Shown is a world map showing the mountain ranges and the number (in circles) of glacier-fed streams sampled per mountain range. Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. B Scatter plots of present-day (red) and future projections (blue) of algal biomass (chlorophyll a) and streamwater turbidity, C algal biomass and bacterial cell abundance, D algal biomass and the Shannon index of bacterial communities, and E algal biomass and the within community mean nearest taxon distance (α-MNTD) of the bacterial communities. The current and future states of each GFS are linked with grey lines. Two-sided tests for correlations between predicted changes were all significant (p < 0.001, Spearman rho = −0.96, 0.98, 0.69, and 0.97 for panels B–E, respectively). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
