Compositional changes in free‐living bacterial communities along a salinity gradient in two temperate estuaries

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Effects of increasing salinity on freshwater ecosystems in Australia (2003, background): “average values for those systems ( Boulton and Brock 1999 ); 3000 mg L–1 is often considered the lower limit for saline waters (Hart et al. 1991).”
The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks (2010, background): “In estuaries, which are the mixing zones between both ecosystems and, thus, extraordinary field laboratories to study ecological niches of bacterial lineages, a clear dominance was found for the Alphaproteobacteria in the lower, saltier water and for the Betaproteobacteria in the upper, fresher wate”