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Parameter: Microbial_Community_Composition

Dataset: 
Artificial Reef fDOM
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text description of sample collected

Dataset-parameters information
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Microbial_Community_Composition
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Description: 
The microbial community composition was defined by the presence of both nitrifying bacteria and archaea and photoautotrophs ("both"), nitrifiers only ("nitrate"), or neither of these microbial groups ("neither") (data from Freeman et al., 2020).