Year-Long Microbial Succession on Microplastics in Wastewater: Chaotic Dynamics Outweigh Preferential Growth.

Indeed, the microbial communities (particularly bacterial) show a clear trend of increasing dissimilarity between plastic types as time increases.

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When functional activity in the communities is estimated using FARPROTAX, an overall trend can be seen in reducing functional diversity over time (see Figure 3 ).

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