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Record W7116269757 · doi:10.1016/j.watres.2025.125243

Periphyton microbial communities of artificial streams impacted similarly by distinct phosphorus enrichment patterns

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Anja Skrobonja, Christine Lundsgaard-Nielsen, Edward M. Krynak, Chris T. Parsons, Josh D. Neufeld, Adam G. Yates

Bibliographic record

VenueWater Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicFreshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
Canadian institutionsEnvironment and Climate Change CanadaUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPeriphytonMesocosmSpecies evennessMicrobial population biologySTREAMSDominance (genetics)PhosphorusAlgaeSpecies richness

Abstract

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Phosphorus (P) enrichment of stream water influences the diversity and composition of periphyton assemblages. However, P enrichment can vary temporally with the source of P and there is limited knowledge of the relative impacts of different enrichment patterns on periphyton communities. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a 25-day mesocosm experiment using nine artificial streams exposed to three P enrichment loading patterns: unenriched, continuously enriched, or event enriched. Periphyton samples were collected from each stream at six time points during the experiment and high throughput sequencing of 16S and 18S rRNA genes was performed to characterize prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial assemblages. Microbial community compositions of stream periphyton were similar by the end of the experiment for continuously and event enriched streams, and both treatments differed from end point microbial community profiles of unenriched mesocosms. This similarity among periphyton samples from enriched stream mesocosms was primarily due to the shared dominance of green algae (Desmodesmus) and Proteobacteria (Comamonadaceae) for eukaryotic and prokaryotic assemblages, respectively. Richness of both microbial assemblages declined with enrichment, regardless of loading pattern. In contrast, evenness only differed among eukaryotic assemblages, with lower evenness in the enriched streams compared to the unenriched. Overall, our data demonstrate that the amount of P enrichment, rather than pattern of enrichment, regulates periphyton microbial community composition. Management of P enrichment may thus benefit from targeting the most efficient way to reduce P loads regardless of source.

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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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.277
Teacher spread0.250 · 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

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