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ClearData Sheet 1_The impact of climate change induced extreme weather events on microbial dynamics and public health: an in-depth review on water quality and ecosystem resilience.docx
This supplementary data file accompanied a review on how climate change-induced extreme weather events affect microbial dynamics and public health in aquatic systems. The document provided detailed supporting data for the review's analysis of flood, drought, and heatwave impacts on water quality and pathogen dynamics.
Climate Change and Adverse Public Health Impacts on Human Health and Water Resources
This review examines how climate change is creating interconnected threats to public health and freshwater resources worldwide. Researchers found that rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events are degrading water quality through increased contamination from pollutants including microplastics. The study highlights the urgent need for integrated strategies that address water management, pollution control, and public health simultaneously.
Climate change and microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems: ecological and societal consequences
This review examines how climate change amplifies the ecological and societal impacts of microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems. The study suggests that rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and altered precipitation patterns accelerate plastic fragmentation and dispersal, creating compounding effects on water quality, biodiversity, and coastal communities.
Impacts of a Changing Earth on Microbial Dynamics and Human Health Risks in the Continuum between Beach Water and Sand
This review examines how climate and environmental changes affect microbial pathogens at recreational beaches, where people are exposed through water contact, sand, and aerosols. Some microplastics entering beaches carry biofilm communities including potentially pathogenic bacteria, adding a health dimension to beach plastic pollution.
How Antimicrobial Resistance Is Linked to Climate Change: An Overview of Two Intertwined Global Challenges
This review explores how climate change and antibiotic resistance are connected health emergencies, with microplastics playing a role as carriers that help spread resistant bacteria through waterways. The findings suggest that rising plastic pollution in water systems may contribute to the spread of drug-resistant infections, which is a growing threat to human health.
Human impact on symbioses between aquatic organisms and microbes
This review examined how human-driven stressors — including pollution, climate change, and habitat modification — disrupt beneficial microbial symbioses in aquatic organisms, arguing that disrupted host-microbe relationships represent an underappreciated pathway through which environmental degradation harms aquatic ecosystems.
Microbiomes of the Aquatic Environment
This review examines the diversity and ecological roles of microbial communities in aquatic environments, covering microbiomes associated with aquatic insects, plants, fish, phytoplankton, macrophytes, and microplastics, and their interconnected functions in nutrient cycling and primary production. The authors discuss how climate change, eutrophication, and pollution are shifting microbial community composition in ways that threaten the functioning of freshwater and marine ecosystems.
Insight into the multifactorial effect of climate change on marine bacteria: resilience mechanisms and mitigation strategies
This review examines how multiple climate change factors — including ocean acidification, warming, deoxygenation, and anthropogenic pollutants including microplastics — interact to affect marine bacteria and their roles in biogeochemical cycling. The authors synthesize resilience mechanisms employed by marine bacteria and discuss mitigation strategies to preserve microbial ecosystem functions under accelerating environmental change.
Urbanization promotes specific bacteria in freshwater microbiomes including potential pathogens
Researchers used full-length 16S rRNA sequencing to compare freshwater microbial communities across urban and rural lakes in Germany, finding that urbanization consistently promoted specific bacterial genera including potential pathogens such as Escherichia/Shigella and Rickettsia, driven by warming, eutrophication, and wastewater inputs.
Pathogenic Bacteria In Aquatic Ecosystems: Threats And Mitigation Approaches
This review examined pathogenic bacteria in aquatic ecosystems — including cholera, dysentery, and typhoid pathogens — and assessed the threats they pose to public health globally, particularly in regions with inadequate sanitation, alongside potential mitigation strategies.
Mobile genetic elements and wastewater treatment: contaminants of emerging concern, climate change, and trophic transmission
This review examines how microplastics and PFAS interact with mobile genetic elements and horizontal gene transfer in wastewater treatment plants, and how extreme weather events driven by climate change can overwhelm these systems and amplify the spread of antibiotic resistance.
Influence of climate change on emerging pathogens and human immunity
This review discusses how climate change-driven shifts in temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather events are altering the distribution and virulence of emerging pathogens, with downstream consequences for human and animal immunity. The authors examine interactions between environmental change, pathogen adaptation, and immune function, arguing that climate mitigation is essential for maintaining disease resistance in human populations.
Interactions between dissolved organic matter and the microbial community are modified by microplastics and heat waves
Researchers studied how microplastics and heat waves together affect the relationship between dissolved organic matter and microbial communities in river water. They found that microplastics released their own organic compounds that reshaped microbial communities, and heat waves amplified these effects by altering carbon cycling. The study suggests that the combination of plastic pollution and climate-related temperature extremes may disrupt natural water carbon cycles more than either stressor alone.
Antibiotic legacies shape the temperature response of soil microbial communities
Historical exposure to antibiotics in soil shaped how microbial communities responded to temperature changes, demonstrating that past stressors influence future ecosystem function. The study highlighted that antibiotic legacies from agricultural activity can compound the effects of climate change by altering the temperature sensitivity of soil microbial processes.
Microplastics in urban waters and its effects on microbial communities: a critical review
This critical review examined microplastic pollution in urban freshwater systems and its effects on microbial communities including water microbiomes and biofilm communities. The authors found evidence that microplastics alter microbial diversity, promote antibiotic resistance gene transfer, and disrupt carbon and nutrient cycling.
Microbiological perspectives on the effects of microplastics on the aquatic environment
This review examines how microplastics interact with microorganisms in aquatic environments, highlighting risks to microbial communities and the potential for microplastics to disrupt ecosystem functions. Microplastics may alter microbial diversity and promote the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Campylobacter—an Emerging Pollutant of Aquatic Environments
This review explores the growing presence of Campylobacter bacteria in aquatic environments worldwide, driven by factors including agricultural runoff, wastewater discharge, and climate change. Researchers highlight the public health risks posed by these bacteria and their antibiotic resistance genes in recreational and drinking water sources. The study calls for comprehensive monitoring and management strategies to address this emerging waterborne pollution concern.
The Impact of Treated Urban Wastewaters and Flood Discharge on the Quality of Bathing Water
Researchers investigated how treated urban wastewater discharges and flood events affect the microbiological and chemical quality of bathing waters along the Adriatic Sea coast. The study found that stormwater overflow and wastewater treatment failures during flood conditions are key drivers of temporary bathing water quality degradation, posing risks to public health at recreational sites.
How microplastics influence the health and microbiota of aquatic invertebrates: A review
This review examines how microplastics affect the health and microbiota of aquatic invertebrates, an area that has received less attention than fish studies. Researchers summarize evidence showing that microplastics cause toxicity at biological and molecular levels, alter microbial communities associated with invertebrate hosts, and interact with climate change and other pollutants to produce combined effects. The study highlights significant knowledge gaps and proposes future research directions for understanding microplastic impacts on aquatic ecosystems.
Addressing water resource management challenges in the context of climate change and human influence
This study identifies and documents the key challenges facing water resource management due to the combined pressures of climate change and human activity. Researchers found that droughts, floods, sea-level rise, and pollution are threatening both water quality and public health on a global scale. The study emphasizes that more sustainable approaches to water governance and infrastructure are urgently needed to address the growing gap between water supply and demand.
Antimicrobial Resistance Development Pathways in Surface Waters and Public Health Implications
Researchers evaluated the pathways through which antibiotic-resistant bacteria develop and spread in surface waters, identifying healthcare facilities, wastewater, agricultural runoff, and wildlife as major vehicles. The study found that antibiotic residues, heavy metals, and even climate change drive the emergence of resistance in aquatic environments. The findings highlight that surface water contamination poses a growing public health threat, particularly for food and animal handlers who face higher exposure risk.
Dual regulatory effects of microplastics and heat waves on river microbial carbon metabolism
Researchers found that microplastics inhibited the thermal adaptation of river microbial communities during simulated heat waves, disrupting carbon metabolism processes and suggesting that combined microplastic pollution and climate warming may alter riverine carbon cycling.
Climate Change, Water Quality and Water-Related Challenges: A Review with Focus on Pakistan
This review examines how climate change is affecting water quality and water-related health challenges, with a focus on Pakistan. Researchers found that rising temperatures, altered rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events are intensifying water contamination, including emerging pollutants. The study highlights the compounding effects of climate variability on already strained water resources in developing countries.
The nexus of microplastics, food and antimicrobial resistance in the context of aquatic environment: Interdisciplinary linkages of pathways
This review examines how microplastics in aquatic environments serve as surfaces where bacteria can grow, share antibiotic resistance genes, and then enter the food chain through contaminated seafood. The combination of microplastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance creates a compounding threat, as resistant bacteria riding on plastic particles can survive water treatment and reach humans. The authors call for interdisciplinary research connecting environmental science and public health to address this growing risk.