The goal of this study is to examine long-term changes in microbial communities at both the organismal and community levels in three well studied freshwater lakes in Wisconsin: Lake Mendota, Crystal Bog Lake, and Trout Bog Lake as a part of the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research (NTL-LTER).
National Science Foundation Microbial Observatories program (MCB-0702395, MCB-9977903) and the Long-Term Ecological Research program for the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research site (DEB-9632853, DEB-0217533, DEB-0822700, DEB-1440297).|U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Hatch Projects WIS01516, WIS01789, WIS03004).