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Orhan İnce - H. Abdullah Uçan, et al.

Climate Change and carried out by Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and
completed on December 15, 2021, it has been revealed that Salda Lake is rich
in microbial diversity, and Alphaproteobacteria class, which is very important
for microbial evolution, dominantly found in Salda Lake. Both prokaryotic
and eukaryotic diversity of Salda Lake was determined in both summer and
winter seasons, and gene sequences were obtained for patenting. Thus,
qualified microbial diversity data has been provided that is predicted to be
comparable to NASA’s possible biological trace research on Mars (İnce et
al., 2021). Prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity data obtained from microbial
characterization studies carried out on new generation sequencing platforms
are planned to be published in international platforms, refereed scientific
journals as original publications in 2023.
In the light of the data obtained within the scope of the project, this
article includes, a general assessment of the microbial ecology of Salda Lake,
the general results obtained from molecular-based studies, and within the
framework of the holistic watershed management approach, our evaluations
regarding the complete control of all point and diffuse resources that produce
pollution in the Salda Lake Water Collection Basin, the preservation of the
existing water quality of Salda Lake, precautions to protect Salda Lake to
achieve this goal.

Keywords: Advanced molecular methods, Jezero Crater, Illumina Miseq,
Mars, Metabarcoding, Microbial ecology, Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Diversity,
Salda Lake.

126 Journal of Environment, Urbanization and Climate