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Record W4414732582 · doi:10.1139/cjm-2025-0015

Microbial biodiversity of agricultural surface waters in Ontario, Canada

2025· article· en· W4414732582 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Izhar U. H. Khan, Yutao Wang, Tiequan Zhang, Keri Malanchuk, Shanwei Xu, Sophie Crévecoeur, Josh Wang, Arthur Zastepa, Xiaoji Liu

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Microbiology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicMicrobial Community Ecology and Physiology
Canadian institutionsAlberta Crop Industry Development FundMcGill UniversityInternational Development Research Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSTREAMSWater qualitySurface waterManureAgricultureBacteroidetesBenthic zoneAbundance (ecology)Biodiversity

Abstract

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Understanding the microbial diversity is the first step to monitor the microbial quality of agricultural surface waters. Here we report a study comparing the microbial composition and diversities in agricultural surface waters in Ontario, Canada, including the streams adjacent to dairy cattle production in eastern Ontario and the field runoffs from the manure-impacted experimental farm of south-western Ontario. We also studied the quality of the surface water in the western basin of Lake Erie during a harmful algal bloom (cHAB). In eastern Ontario, we found significantly lower ( P < 0.01) abundance of Proteobacteria and Burkholderiales in the streams adjacent to dairy production than the non-agriculture site. Bacteroidetes was more abundant ( P < 0.0001) in medium/high order streams and agriculture/urban mixed site. Seasonal peaks of Flavobacterium were observed in low order streams but the trend was not in medium/high order streams. In south-western Ontario, the dominant bacterial taxa in field runoffs was Pseudomonas, regardless of manure types. We also discovered that the elevated total dissolved nitrogen, total dissolved phosphorus and chlorophyll a associated with the cHAB zone in Lake Erie was further away rather from the agricultural sites. In conclusion, our studies identified unique microbiome patterns associated with agricultural surface waters in Ontario.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.111

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.155
Teacher spread0.150 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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