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Tag: Robin Rohwer

Earlier Algae Blooms, Lingering Toxins: Invasive Species Cause Big Changes to a Lake’s Microbial Community

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A new study is highlighting the outsized impacts that invasive species can have – even on the tiniest residents in an ecosystem. Published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the report maps out how two invasive species affected the microbial community of one Wisconsin lake and led …

Field Samples: Understanding Microbes’ Role in Lake Ecosystems

Field Samples is a Q&A with aquatic researchers. Today  Robin Rohwer, a graduate student studying microbial ecology in Trina McMahon’s lab will give a public talk at noon on what microbes are in our lakes and what it is they do. It’s the Center for Limnology’s weekly Wednesday seminar.  Who are you, where are you …