Microbial Community Dynamics in Prairie-Based Anaerobic Digestion Systems

Iowa State University research investigates microbial community response to operational parameters in anaerobic digestion. The study uses high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to correlate community dynamics with process performance. Data was last updated on 2026-05-22.

Use Cases

• Correlating microbial taxa with methane production based on performance metrics mentioned in the description
• Modeling community shifts based on solids retention time (SRT) parameter
• Analyzing microbial dynamics based on prairie-to-manure (PM) co-digestion ratios
• Investigating the impact of organic load (OL) on community structure

Strengths

• Focuses on microbial community dynamics, a specific aspect of anaerobic digestion
• Correlates community data with process performance outcomes like methane production
• Investigates multiple operational parameters: SRT, PM ratios, and OL

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Iowa State University

Collection Method

High-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 03:16:32; freshness should be verified