Diversity of the microbial community of freshwater lake Bount

We have studied the diversity of the microbial community in the water of the large freshwater Lake Baunt, located in the permafrost zone. The Shannon diversity index is higher than in Lake Baikal and other freshwater lakes in Buryatia. The main bacterial phyla dominant in the community were also present in other freshwater lakes of the region, revealing differences in the quantitative distribution of groups in the community. The dominant taxa in Lake Baunt are distributed across cold-water ecotopes around the world. We have found no taxa that are indicators of anthropogenic pollution in the microbial community of Lake Baunt.