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Wang T, Liu R, Huang G, Tian X, Zhang Y, He M, Wang C. Assembly dynamics of eukaryotic plankton and bacterioplankton in the Yangtze River estuary: A hybrid community perspective. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 196:106414. [PMID: 38394975 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2024] [Accepted: 02/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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Estuaries, acting as transitional habitats receiving species introductions from both freshwater and marine sources, undergo significant impacts from global climate changes. Planktonic microorganisms contribute significantly to estuarine biodiversity and ecological stability. These microorganisms primarily fall into three groups: eukaryotic plankton, particle-associated bacteria, and free-living bacteria. Understanding the structural characteristics and interactions within these subcommunities is crucial for comprehending estuarine dynamics. We collected samples from three distinct locations (< 0.1 PSU, 6.6 PSU, and 19 PSU) within the Yangtze River estuary. Samples underwent analysis for physicochemical indicators, while microbial communities were subjected to 16S/18S rRNA amplicon sequencing. Additionally, simulated mixing experiments were conducted using samples of varying salinities. Estuary samples, combined with simulated experiments, were employed to collectively examine the structural characteristics and assembly processes of estuarine microbes. Our research highlights the considerable impact of phylogenetic classification on prokaryotic behavior in these communities. We observed a transition in assembly processes from primarily stochastic for particle-associated bacteria to a predominant influence of homogeneous selection as salinity increased. Particle-associated bacterial communities exhibited a greater influence of stochastic processes compared to free-living bacteria, showcasing higher stability in diversity. The variations in composition and structure of estuarine microbial subcommunities were influenced by diverse environmental factors. Particle-associated bacteria displayed elevated network characterization values and established closer interactions with eukaryotic plankton. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis revealed that free-living bacteria displayed a heightened sensitivity to environmental factors and exerted a more significant influence on assembly processes and network characteristics. Simulated mixing in these environments resulted in the loss of species with similar microbial taxonomic relationships. The functioning of bacterioplankton is influenced by salinity and the processes governing their assembly, particularly in relation to different living states. These findings significantly contribute to our understanding of the intricate interplay between prokaryotic and eukaryotic plankton microorganisms in highly dynamic environments, laying a robust foundation for further exploration into the ecological mechanisms governing microbial dynamics in estuaries.
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- Tong Wang
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, College of Resources and Environmental Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, College of Resources and Environmental Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, College of Resources and Environmental Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, College of Resources and Environmental Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, College of Resources and Environmental Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, College of Resources and Environmental Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China; Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, College of Resources and Environmental Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China; Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China; Co-Innovation Center for Jiangsu Marine Bio-Industry Technology, Lianyungang, 222005, China
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Xie R, Lin L, Shi C, Zhang P, Rao P, Li J, Izabel-Shen D. Elucidating the links between N 2O dynamics and changes in microbial communities following saltwater intrusions. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 245:118021. [PMID: 38147917 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.118021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/28/2023]
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Saltwater intrusion in estuarine ecosystems alters microbial communities as well as biogeochemical cycling processes and has become a worldwide problem. However, the impact of salinity intrusion on the dynamics of nitrous oxide (N2O) and associated microbial community are understudied. Here, we conducted field microcosms in a tidal estuary during different months (December, April and August) using dialysis bags, and microbes inside the bags encountered a change in salinity in natural setting. We then compared N2O dynamics in the microcosms with that in natural water. Regardless of incubation environment, saltwater intrusion altered the dissolved N2O depending on the initial saturation rates of N2O. While the impact of saltwater intrusion on N2O dynamics was consistent across months, the dissolved N2O was higher in summer than in winter. The N-related microbial communities following saltwater intrusion were dominated by denitrifers, with fewer nitrifiers and bacterial taxa involved in dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium. While denitrification was a significant driver of N2O dynamics in the studied estuary, nitrifier-involved denitrification contributed to the additional production of N2O, evidenced by the strong associations with amoA genes and the abundance of Nitrospira. Higher N2O concentrations in the field microcosms than in natural water limited N2O consumption in the former, given the lack of an association with nosZ gene abundance. The differences in the N2O dynamics observed between the microcosms and natural water could be that the latter comprised not only indigenous microbes but also those accompanied with saltwater intrusion, and that immigrants might be functionally rich individuals and able to perform N transformation in multiple pathways. Our work provides the first quantitative assessment of in situ N2O concentrations in an estuary subjected to a saltwater intrusion. The results highlight the importance of ecosystem size and microbial connectivity in the source-sink dynamics of N2O in changing environments.
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- Rongrong Xie
- College of Environmental and Resource Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350117, China; Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Recycling of Fujian Province, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350117, China; Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Rostock, 18119, Germany.
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- College of Environmental and Resource Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350117, China
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- Fujian Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Fuzhou, 350013, China
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- School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350117, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350117, China; Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Recycling of Fujian Province, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350117, China
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- Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), Oldenburg, 26129, Germany; Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, 27570, Germany.
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Lin L, Xiong J, Liu L, Wang F, Cao W, Xu W. Microbial interactions strengthen deterministic processes during community assembly in a subtropical estuary. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 906:167499. [PMID: 37778550 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2023] [Revised: 09/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Systematic studies on the assembly process and driving mechanisms of microbial communities in estuaries with diverse seasonal and spatial scales are still limited. In this study, high-throughput sequencing, and microbial network analysis were combined to decipher the impact of environmental changes and biological interactions on the maintenance of microbial diversity patterns in the Jiulong River Estuary (JRE). The results showed that overall, stochastic processes dominated the bacterioplankton community assembly in the estuary, accounting for 49.66-74.78 % of the total. Additionally, bacterioplankton community diversity varied significantly across seasons and subzones. Specifically, the concentration of soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) in the estuary steadily reduced from winter to summer, and the corresponding bacterioplankton community interactions gradually shifted from the weakest interaction in winter to the strongest in summer. The deterministic processes contributed more than half (50.34 %) to microbial assembly in the summer, but only 25.22 % in winter. Deterministic processes prevailed in the seaward with low SRP concentrations and strong bacterioplankton community interactions, while stochastic processes contributed 70.14 % to the assembly of microbial communities riverward. Biotic and abiotic factors, such as nutrients and microbial interactions, jointly drove the seasonal and spatial patterns of bacterioplankton community assembly, but overall, nutrients played a dominant role. Nevertheless, the contributions of nutrients and microbial interactions were equivalent in spatial assembly processes, albeit nutrients were the primary seasonal driver of the bacterioplankton community assembly process. This study emphasizes the significance of microbial interactions in the bacterioplankton community assemblage. These findings provide new and comprehensive insights into the microbial communities' organization in estuaries.
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- Ling Lin
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiang'an South Road, Xiamen 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiang'an South Road, Xiamen 361102, China
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- Fujian Xiamen Environmental Monitoring Central Station, Xing'lin South Road, Xiamen 361022, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiang'an South Road, Xiamen 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiang'an South Road, Xiamen 361102, China.
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- Fujian Xiamen Environmental Monitoring Central Station, Xing'lin South Road, Xiamen 361022, China.
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Wang Z, Hu X, Kang W, Qu Q, Feng R, Mu L. Interactions between dissolved organic matter and the microbial community are modified by microplastics and heat waves. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 448:130868. [PMID: 36709740 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.130868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Revised: 01/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Dissolved organic matter (DOM) exists widely in natural waters and plays an important role in river carbon cycles and greenhouse gas emissions through microbial interactions. However, information on DOM-microbe associations in response to environmental stress is limited. River environments are the main carriers of microplastic (MP) pollution, and global heat waves (HWs) are threatening river ecology. Here, through MP exposure and HW simulation experiments, we found that DOM molecular weight and aromaticity were closely related to initial microbial communities. Moreover, MP-derived DOM regulated microbial community abundance and diversity, influenced microorganism succession trajectories as deterministic factors, and competed with riverine DOM for microbial utilization. SimulatedHWs enhanced the MP-derived DOM competitive advantage and drove the microbial community to adopt a K-strategy for effective recalcitrant carbon utilization. Relative to single environmental stressor exposure, combined MP pollution and HWs led to a more unstable microbial network. This study addresses how MPs and HWs drive DOM-microbe interactions in rivers, contributes to an in-depth understanding of the fate of river DOM and microbial community succession processes, and narrows the knowledge gap in understanding carbon sinks in aquatic ecosystems influenced by human activities and climate change.
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- Zhongwei Wang
- Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria (Ministry of Education)/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, 300350 Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria (Ministry of Education)/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, 300350 Tianjin, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria (Ministry of Education)/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, 300350 Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria (Ministry of Education)/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, 300350 Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria (Ministry of Education)/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, 300350 Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Product Safety, Key Laboratory for Environmental Factors Controlling Agro-Product Quality Safety (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Institute of Agro-Environmental Protection, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 300191 Tianjin, China
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Wang Y, Wang J, Zou X, Qu M, Li J. Groundwater depth regulates assembly processes of abundant and rare bacterial communities across arid inland river basin. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 319:115767. [PMID: 35982567 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 06/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Although numerous studies on bacterial biogeographic patterns in dryland have been conducted, bacterial community assembly across arid inland river basins is unclear. Here, we assessed the ecological drivers that regulate the assembly processes of abundant (ABS) and rare (RBS) bacterial subcommunities based on 162 soil samples collected in an arid inland river basin of China. The results showed that: (1) ABS exhibited a steeper distance-decay slope, and were more strongly affected by dispersal limitation (75.5% and 84.5%), than RBS in surface and subsurface soil. RBS were predominantly controlled by variable selection (54.6% and 50.2%). (2) Soil electric conductivity played a decisive role in mediating the balance between deterministic and stochastic processes of ABS and RBS in surface soil, increasing soil electric conductivity increased the importance of deterministic process. For subsurface soil, soil available phosphorus (SAP) and soil pH drove the balance in the assembly processes of ABS and RBS, respectively. The RBS shifted from determinism to stochasticity with decreased pH, while the dominance of deterministic processes was higher in low-SAP sites. (3) Groundwater depth seasonality had substantial effects on the assembly processes of ABS and RBS, but groundwater depth seasonality affected them indirectly mainly by regulating soil properties. Collectively, our study provides robust evidence that groundwater-driven variations in soil properties mediates the community assembly process of soil bacteria in arid inland river basins. This finding is of importance for forecasting the dynamics of soil microbial community and soil process in response to current and future depleted groundwater.
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- Yin Wang
- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China.
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Mai Y, Peng S, Lai Z, Wang X. Seasonal and inter-annual variability of bacterioplankton communities in the subtropical Pearl River Estuary, China. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:21981-21997. [PMID: 34775557 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-17449-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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It is widely recognized that environmental factors substantially influence on the seasonal and inter-annual variability of bacterioplankton communities, yet little is known about the seasonality of bacterioplankton communities in subtropical estuaries at longer-term time scales. Here, the bacterioplankton communities from the eight major outlets of the subtropical Pearl River Estuary were investigated across 3 years (2017-2019) using full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Significant seasonal and inter-annual variation was observed in bacterioplankton community compositions across the 3 years (p < 0.05). In addition, the inferred functional composition of the communities varied with seasons, although not significantly, suggesting that functional redundancy existed among communities and across seasons that could help to cope with environmental changes. Five evaluated environmental parameters (temperature, salinity, pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), total phosphorus (TP)) were significantly correlated with community composition variation, while only three environmental parameters (temperature, pH, and TDS) were correlated with variation in inferred functional composition. Moreover, community composition tracked the seasonal temperature gradients, indicating that temperature was a key environmental factor that affected bacterioplankton community's variation along with seasonal succession patterns. Gammaproteobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria were the most dominant classes in the surface waters of Pearl River Estuary, and their members exhibited divergent responses to temperature changes, while several taxa within these group could be indicators of low and high temperatures that are associated with seasonal changes. These results strengthen our understanding of bacterioplankton community variation in association with temperature-dependent seasonal changes in subtropical estuarine ecosystems.
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- Yongzhan Mai
- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510380, China
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- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510380, China
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- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Immune Technology, Guangzhou, 510070, China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Emergency Test for Dangerous Chemicals, Institute of Analysis, Guangdong Academy of Sciences (China National Analytical Center, Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 100 Xianlie Middle Road, 510070, China.
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Fang G, Yu H, Sheng H, Chen C, Tang Y, Liang Z. Seasonal variations and co-occurrence networks of bacterial communities in the water and sediment of artificial habitat in Laoshan Bay, China. PeerJ 2022; 9:e12705. [PMID: 35036171 PMCID: PMC8740510 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Marine bacteria in the seawater and seafloor are essential parts of Earth’s biodiversity, as they are critical participants of the global energy flow and the material cycles. However, their spatial-temporal variations and potential interactions among varied biotopes in artificial habitat are poorly understood. In this study, we profiled the variations of bacterial communities among seasons and areas in the water and sediment of artificial reefs using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and analyzed the potential interaction patterns among microorganisms. Distinct bacterial community structures in the two biotopes were exhibited. The Shannon diversity and the richness of phyla in the sediment were higher, while the differences among the four seasons were more evident in the water samples. The seasonal variations of bacterial communities in the water were more distinct, while significant variations among four areas were only observed in the sediment. Correlation analysis revealed that nitrite and mud content were the most important factors influencing the abundant OTUs in the water and sediment, respectively. Potential interactions and keystone species were identified based on the three co-occurrence networks. Results showed that the correlations among bacterial communities in the sediment were lower than in the water. Besides, the abundance of the top five abundant species and five keystone species had different changing patterns among four seasons and four areas. These results enriched our understanding of the microbial structures, dynamics, and interactions of microbial communities in artificial habitats, which could provide new insights into planning, constructing and managing these special habitats in the future.
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- Guangjie Fang
- Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- College of ocean and earth sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong, China
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Rain-Franco A, Mouquet N, Gougat-Barbera C, Bouvier T, Beier S. Niche breadth affects bacterial transcription patterns along a salinity gradient. Mol Ecol 2021; 31:1216-1233. [PMID: 34878694 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Understanding the molecular mechanisms that determine a species' life history is important for predicting their susceptibility to environmental change. While specialist species with a narrow niche breadth (NB) maximize their fitness in their optimum habitat, generalists with broad NB adapt to multiple environments. The main objective of this study was to identify general transcriptional patterns that would distinguish bacterial strains characterized by contrasted NBs along a salinity gradient. More specifically, we hypothesized that genes encoding fitness-related traits, such as biomass production, have a higher degree of transcriptional regulation in specialists than in generalists, because the fitness of specialists is more variable under environmental change. By contrast, we expected that generalists would exhibit enhanced transcriptional regulation of genes encoding traits that protect them against cellular damage. To test these hypotheses, we assessed the transcriptional regulation of fitness-related and adaptation-related genes of 11 bacterial strains in relation to their NB and stress exposure under changing salinity conditions. The results suggested that transcriptional regulation levels of fitness- and adaptation-related genes correlated with the NB and/or the stress exposure of the inspected strains. We further identified a shortlist of candidate stress marker genes that could be used in future studies to monitor the susceptibility of bacterial populations or communities to environmental changes.
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- Angel Rain-Franco
- CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, LOMIC, Sorbonne Université, Banyuls/mer, France
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- MARBEC, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- MARBEC, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, LOMIC, Sorbonne Université, Banyuls/mer, France.,Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany
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Izabel-Shen D, Höger AL, Jürgens K. Abundance-Occupancy Relationships Along Taxonomic Ranks Reveal a Consistency of Niche Differentiation in Marine Bacterioplankton With Distinct Lifestyles. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:690712. [PMID: 34262550 PMCID: PMC8273345 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.690712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Abundance-occupancy relationships (AORs) are an important determinant of biotic community dynamics and habitat suitability. However, little is known about their role in complex bacterial communities, either within a phylogenetic framework or as a function of niche breadth. Based on data obtained in a field study in the St. Lawrence Estuary, we used 16S rRNA gene sequencing to examine the vertical patterns, strength, and character of AORs for particle-attached and free-living bacterial assemblages. Free-living communities were phylogenetically more diverse than particle-attached communities. The dominant taxa were consistent in terms of their presence/absence but population abundances differed in surface water vs. the cold intermediate layer. Significant, positive AORs characterized all of the surveyed communities across all taxonomic ranks of bacteria, thus demonstrating an ecologically conserved trend for both free-living and particle-attached bacteria. The strength of the AORs was low at the species level but higher at and above the genus level. These results demonstrate that an assessment of the distributions and population densities of finely resolved taxa does not necessarily improve determinations of apparent niche differences in marine bacterioplankton communities at regional scales compared with the information inferred from a broad taxonomic classification.
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- Dandan Izabel-Shen
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Biological Oceanography Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Biological Oceanography Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock, Germany
- Department of Applied Biosciences and Process Engineering, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Köthen, Germany
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- Department of Biological Oceanography Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock, Germany
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Izabel-Shen D, Albert S, Winder M, Farnelid H, Nascimento FJA. Quality of phytoplankton deposition structures bacterial communities at the water-sediment interface. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:3515-3529. [PMID: 33993575 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Phytoplankton comprises a large fraction of the vertical carbon flux to deep water via the sinking of particulate organic matter (POM). However, despite the importance of phytoplankton in the coupling of benthic-pelagic productivity, the extent to which its deposition in the sediment affects bacterial dynamics at the water-sediment interface is poorly understood. Here, we conducted a microcosm experiment in which varying mixtures of diatom and cyanobacteria, representing phytoplankton-derived POM of differing quality, served as inputs to sediment cores. Characterization of 16S rRNA gene of the bacterial communities at the water-sediment interface showed that bacterial α-diversity was not affected by POM addition, while bacterial β-diversity changed significantly along the POM quality gradient, with the variation driven by changes in relative abundance rather than in taxon replacement. Analysing individual taxa abundances across the POM gradient revealed two distinct bacterial responses, in which taxa within either diatom- or cyanobacteria-favoured groups were more phylogenetically closely related to one another than other taxa found in the water. Moreover, there was little overlap in taxon identity between sediment and water communities, suggesting the minor role played by sediment bacteria in influencing the observed changes in bacterial communities in the overlying water. Together, these results showed that variability in phytoplankton-originated POM can impact bacterial dynamics at the water-sediment interface. Our findings highlight the importance of considering the potential interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria in benthic-pelagic coupling in efforts to understand the structure and function of bacterial communities under a changing climate.
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- Dandan Izabel-Shen
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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Guan Y, Jiang N, Wu Y, Yang Z, Bello A, Yang W. Disentangling the role of salinity-sodicity in shaping soil microbiome along a natural saline-sodic gradient. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 765:142738. [PMID: 33097264 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Increasing salinity and sodicity have been recognized as threats to soil fertility and crop yield worldwide. In recent years, salt-affected soils have received great attentions due to the shortage of arable land. This study therefore aims to characterize soil bacterial community, assembly process and co-occurrence network along natural saline-sodic gradients across Songnen Plain, Northeast China. As revealed by Miseq sequencing, 8482 bacterial OTUs were annotated at 97% identity across 120 soil samples. Our results indicated that soil salinity-sodicity not only significantly decreased bacterial richness and but also impacted bacterial community composition. The dominant bacterial phyla included Proteobacteria (28.89%), Actinobacteria (19.96%) and Gemmatimonadetes (16.71%). By applying threshold indicator species analysis (TITAN), OTUs from Gemmatimonadetes were found to be the taxa with the most prevalent and strongest preference for high salinity-sodicity. Null model analysis revealed that the majority (76.4%) of βNTI values were below -2 or above 2, indicating deterministic process was dominant across all samples. Notably, deterministic process contributed to a greater extent in higher saline-sodic soils. The bacterial co-occurrence network was more complex in slightly saline-sodic soils than in moderately and extremely saline-sodic soils, reflected by more nodes, more hubs and stronger connections, which was mainly driven by soil pH. These results provide strong evidence that salinity-sodicity was a key determinant in shaping soil bacterial community, assembly process and co-occurrence network pattern.
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- Yupeng Guan
- College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China.
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Wang C, Zhang H, Liu P, Wang Y, Sun Y, Song Z, Hu X. Divergent Patterns of Bacterial Community Structure and Function in Response to Estuarine Output in the Middle of the Bohai Sea. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:630741. [PMID: 33763048 PMCID: PMC7982528 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.630741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Understanding environment-community relationships under shifting environmental conditions helps uncover mechanisms by which environmental microbial communities manage to improve ecosystem functioning. This study investigated the microbial community and structure near the Yellow Sea River estuary in 12 stations across the middle of the Bohai Sea for over two seasons to elucidate the influence of estuarine output on them. We found that the dominant phyla in all stations were Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria, and Planctomycetes. Alpha-diversity increased near the estuary and bacterial community structure differed with variation of spatiotemporal gradients. Among all the environmental factors surveyed, temperature, salinity, phosphate, silicon, nitrate, and total virioplankton abundance played crucial roles in controlling the bacterial community composition. Some inferred that community functions such as carbohydrate, lipid, amino acid metabolism, xenobiotics biodegradation, membrane transport, and environmental adaptation were much higher in winter; energy and nucleotide metabolism were lower in winter. Our results suggested that estuarine output had a great influence on the Bohai Sea environment and changes in the water environmental conditions caused by estuarine output developed distinctive microbial communities in the middle of the Bohai Sea. The distinctive microbial communities in winter demonstrated that the shifting water environment may stimulate changes in the diversity and then strengthen the predicted functions.
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- Caixia Wang
- Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China.,Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.,Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China.,Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.,Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China.,Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China.,Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China.,Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China.,Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China.,Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.,Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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Ruiz-González C, Rodellas V, Garcia-Orellana J. The microbial dimension of submarine groundwater discharge: current challenges and future directions. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2021; 45:6128669. [PMID: 33538813 PMCID: PMC8498565 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuab010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Despite the relevance of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) for ocean biogeochemistry, the microbial dimension of SGD remains poorly understood. SGD can influence marine microbial communities through supplying chemical compounds and microorganisms, and in turn, microbes at the land–ocean transition zone determine the chemistry of the groundwater reaching the ocean. However, compared with inland groundwater, little is known about microbial communities in coastal aquifers. Here, we review the state of the art of the microbial dimension of SGD, with emphasis on prokaryotes, and identify current challenges and future directions. Main challenges include improving the diversity description of groundwater microbiota, characterized by ultrasmall, inactive and novel taxa, and by high ratios of sediment-attached versus free-living cells. Studies should explore microbial dynamics and their role in chemical cycles in coastal aquifers, the bidirectional dispersal of groundwater and seawater microorganisms, and marine bacterioplankton responses to SGD. This will require not only combining sequencing methods, visualization and linking taxonomy to activity but also considering the entire groundwater–marine continuum. Interactions between traditionally independent disciplines (e.g. hydrogeology, microbial ecology) are needed to frame the study of terrestrial and aquatic microorganisms beyond the limits of their presumed habitats, and to foster our understanding of SGD processes and their influence in coastal biogeochemical cycles.
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- Clara Ruiz-González
- Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC). Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, E08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra, Spain.,Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Rain-Franco A, de Moraes GP, Beier S. Cryopreservation and Resuscitation of Natural Aquatic Prokaryotic Communities. Front Microbiol 2021; 11:597653. [PMID: 33584565 PMCID: PMC7877341 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.597653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Experimental reproducibility in aquatic microbial ecology is critical to predict the dynamics of microbial communities. However, controlling the initial composition of naturally occurring microbial communities that will be used as the inoculum in experimental setups is challenging, because a proper method for the preservation of those communities is lacking. To provide a feasible method for preservation and resuscitation of natural aquatic prokaryote assemblages, we developed a cryopreservation procedure applied to natural aquatic prokaryotic communities. We studied the impact of inoculum size, processing time, and storage time on the success of resuscitation. We further assessed the effect of different growth media supplemented with dissolved organic matter (DOM) prepared from naturally occurring microorganisms on the recovery of the initially cryopreserved communities obtained from two sites that have contrasting trophic status and environmental heterogeneity. Our results demonstrated that the variability of the resuscitation process among replicates decreased with increasing inoculum size. The degree of similarity between initial and resuscitated communities was influenced by both the growth medium and origin of the community. We further demonstrated that depending on the inoculum source, 45-72% of the abundant species in the initially natural microbial communities could be detected as viable cells after cryopreservation. Processing time and long-term storage up to 12 months did not significantly influence the community composition after resuscitation. However, based on our results, we recommend keeping handling time to a minimum and ensure identical incubation conditions for repeated resuscitations from cryo-preserved aliquots at different time points. Given our results, we recommend cryopreservation as a promising tool to advance experimental research in the field of microbial ecology.
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- Angel Rain-Franco
- UMR 7621 Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, Sorbonne Université, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
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- UMR 7621 Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, Sorbonne Université, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
- Graduate Program in Ecology and Natural Resources (PPGERN), Laboratory of Phycology, Department of Botany, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
- Department of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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- UMR 7621 Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, Sorbonne Université, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
- Department of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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Understanding response of microbial communities to saltwater intrusion through microcosms. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021; 19:929-933. [PMID: 33598106 PMCID: PMC7851333 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A central pursuit of microbial ecology is to accurately describe and explain the shifts in microbial community composition and function that occur in response to environmental changes. This goal requires a thorough understanding of the individual responses of different species and of the processes guiding the assembly of microbial populations similar in their response traits and corresponding functional traits. These research topics are addressed and synthesized in this Highlights, in four studies applying a trait-based framework to assess how environmental change affected the composition and functional performance of bacterioplankton of natural origin in microcosm experiments. The salinity of many aquatic environments is currently changing, due to climate change and anthropogenic activities. The mechanisms by which salinity influences community assembly, functional redundancy and functional genes involved in nitrogen cycle, and how dispersal modifies community outcome are explored in the four studies. Together, the findings of these case studies demonstrate the feasibility of using novel experiments in combination with integrative analyses of 16S rRNA and meta-'omic' data to address ecological questions. This combined approach has the potential to elucidate both the processes contributing to bacterial community assembly and the possible links between the compositional and functional changes that occur under shifting environmental conditions.
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Adyari B, Shen D, Li S, Zhang L, Rashid A, Sun Q, Hu A, Chen N, Yu CP. Strong impact of micropollutants on prokaryotic communities at the horizontal but not vertical scales in a subtropical reservoir, China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 721:137767. [PMID: 32179350 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2019] [Revised: 03/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Micropollutants have become of great concern, because of their disrupting effects on the structure and function of microbial communities. However, little is known about the relative importance of trace micropollutants on the aquatic prokaryotic communities as compared to the traditional physico-chemical characteristics, especially at different spatial dimensions. Here, we investigated free-living (FL) and particle-associated (PA) prokaryotic communities in a subtropical water reservoir, China, across seasons at horizontal (surface water) and vertical (depth-profile) scales by using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Our results showed that the shared variances of physico-chemicals and micropollutants explained majority of the spatial variations in prokaryotic communities, suggesting a strong joint effect of the two abiotic categories on reservoir prokaryotic communities. Micropollutants appeared to exert strong independent influence on the core sub-communities (i.e., abundant and wide-spread taxa) than on the satellite (i.e., less abundant and narrow-range taxa) counterparts. The pure effect of micropollutants on both core and satellite sub-communities from FL and PA fractions was ~1.5 folds greater than that of physico-chemical factors at the horizontal scale, whereas an opposite effect was observed at the vertical scale. Moreover, eight micropollutants including anti-fungal agents, antibiotics, bisphenol analogues, stimulant and UV-filter were identified as the major disrupting compounds with strong associations with core taxa of typical freshwater prokaryotes. Altogether, we concluded that the ecological disrupting effects of micropollutants on prokaryotic communities may vary along horizontal and vertical dimensions in freshwater ecosystems.
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- Bob Adyari
- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Department of Environmental Engineering, Universitas Pertamina, Jakarta 12220, Indonesia
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- Section of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde D-18119, Germany; Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture, Tarnab, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Coastal Ecology and Environmental Studies, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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Mohapatra M, Behera P, Kim JY, Rastogi G. Seasonal and spatial dynamics of bacterioplankton communities in a brackish water coastal lagoon. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 705:134729. [PMID: 31838414 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Revised: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 09/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Coastal ecosystems, one of the most productive ecosystems, are subjected to natural and anthropogenic stresses. Coastal bacterioplankton communities are highly dynamic due to spatiotemporal heterogeneity in the environmental parameters. We investigated the seasonal and spatial variation in bacterioplankton communities, their abundances and environmental drivers during one year period in Chilika, a brackish water coastal lagoon of India. High-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA genes of bacterioplankton communities showed that they were dominated by heterotrophs namely α-Proteobacteria SAR11 and their sub-clades (SAR11_Ib, Chesapeake-Delaware_Bay, Candidatus_Pelagibacter, and SAR11_Surface_1), actinobacterial lineages (hgcI, CL500-29, and Candidatus_Aquiluna), β-Proteobacteria MWH-UniP1, β-Proteobacteria OM43, and verrucomicrobial clade Spartobacteria 'LD29'. Synechococcus was the dominant member within autotrophic cyanobacterial community. Response ratio derived from comparisons of taxon-specific absolute abundances and indicator analyses showed that SAR11_Surface_1 sub-clade occupied high-salinity environment especially during summer and winter and emerged as a strong indicator for mesohaline-polyhaline salinity regime. In contrast, Spartobacteria 'LD29', Actinobacteria hgcI, and CL500-29 preferred low-salinity freshwater environment and were strong indicators for oligohaline-mesohaline regimes. Spatiotemporal patterns were governed by 'distance-decay' and 'similarity-time' relationships. Bacterioplankton communities were mostly determined by salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate, and pH which resulted 'species sorting' leading to biogeographical patterns in the bacterioplankton communities. Modeling analysis revealed the characteristic shift in the indicator bacterioplankton taxa along with estuarine salinity gradient. This study has provided baseline information on the bacterioplankton communities and their environmental drivers within an anthropogenically impacted cyclone prone coastal lagoon which would be useful in assessing the impact of multiple stressors on this vulnerable ecosystem.
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- Madhusmita Mohapatra
- Wetland Research and Training Centre, Chilika Development Authority, Balugaon, Odisha 752030, India; School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India
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- Wetland Research and Training Centre, Chilika Development Authority, Balugaon, Odisha 752030, India
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- Center for Climate Change Adaptation, National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba 305-8506, Japan
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- Wetland Research and Training Centre, Chilika Development Authority, Balugaon, Odisha 752030, India.
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Chen X, Wei W, Wang J, Li H, Sun J, Ma R, Jiao N, Zhang R. Tide driven microbial dynamics through virus-host interactions in the estuarine ecosystem. WATER RESEARCH 2019; 160:118-129. [PMID: 31136846 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.05.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Revised: 05/11/2019] [Accepted: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Microbes drive ecosystems and their viruses manipulate these processes, yet the importance of tidal functioning on the estuarine viruses and microbes remains poorly elucidated. Here, an integrative investigation on tidal patterns in viral and microbial communities and their inherent interactions over an entire spring-neap tidal cycle was conducted along a macrotidal subtropical estuary. The viral and microbial abundances oscillated significantly over the tidal cycle with relatively higher abundances observed at spring tide compared to neap tide. The distinct tidal dynamic patterns in bacterial production and community composition were tightly associated with the variations in viral infection, production and decay, revealing the tide-driven interactions between viruses and microbes. Concurrent with the higher viral decay but lower bacterial abundance and inhibited bacterial metabolism during the neap tide, lower gross viral production was coupled with a synchronous switching from viral lytic to lysogenic infection induced by the loss of viral infection efficiency and the transition from marine to freshwater bacterial populations triggered by tidal mixing. Our results highlighted the major tidal impact on the microbial dynamics through virus-host interactions, with cascading effects, neglected so far, on estuarine biogeochemical cycles.
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- Xiaowei Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, PR China; College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, PR China
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- National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, State Oceanic Administration, Dalian, 116023, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, PR China.
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Chen X, Ma R, Yang Y, Jiao N, Zhang R. Viral Regulation on Bacterial Community Impacted by Lysis-Lysogeny Switch: A Microcosm Experiment in Eutrophic Coastal Waters. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1763. [PMID: 31417537 PMCID: PMC6685395 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Marine viruses are major drivers of global biogeochemical cycles and energy fluxes, yet the importance of viral impacts on the succession and diversity of the bacterial community remains largely unexplored. Here, we explored viral life strategy and its potential effect on the bacterial community by experimental incubations of eutrophic coastal waters under lysogen-induced and non-induced treatments. The lysogen-induced treatment showed relatively constant viral and bacterial abundances, lytic and lysogenic viral production throughout the experimental period, together with the progressive declines in not only the relative abundances for SAR11, Rhodobacteraceae, Alteromonadaceae, and SAR86 but the bacterial community diversity. Conversely, the non-induced treatment observed the marked variation in the abundances of viruses, bacteria and cells with high nucleic acid content over the time course of incubation, which was congruent with the drastic shift in lytic and lysogenic viral production as well as the succession of bacterial community. Our results supported the hypotheses that a high level of lysogeny would occur with the increasing density of bacteria with rapid growth rate, which may contribute to a relatively lower host community diversity, whereas the lysogeny to lysis switching would fuel growth opportunities for less-active or initially rare bacterial taxa and generate a more diverse bacterial community. Altogether, the present study underscored the crucial regulatory role of the viral lysis-lysogeny pattern in bacterial community dynamics, composition and diversity, highlighting the viral impact on the microbial food web and biogeochemical processes.
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- Xiaowei Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.,College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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Dang C, Morrissey EM, Neubauer SC, Franklin RB. Novel microbial community composition and carbon biogeochemistry emerge over time following saltwater intrusion in wetlands. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2019; 25:549-561. [PMID: 30537235 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Sea level rise and changes in precipitation can cause saltwater intrusion into historically freshwater wetlands, leading to shifts in microbial metabolism that alter greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon sequestration. Saltwater intrusion modifies soil physicochemistry and can immediately affect microbial metabolism, but further alterations to biogeochemical processing can occur over time as microbial communities adapt to the changed environmental conditions. To assess temporal changes in microbial community composition and biogeochemical activity due to saltwater intrusion, soil cores were transplanted from a tidal freshwater marsh to a downstream mesohaline marsh and periodically sampled over 1 year. This experimental saltwater intrusion produced immediate changes in carbon mineralization rates, whereas shifts in the community composition developed more gradually. Salinity affected the composition of the prokaryotic community but did not exert a strong influence on the community composition of fungi. After only 1 week of saltwater exposure, carbon dioxide production doubled and methane production decreased by three orders of magnitude. By 1 month, carbon dioxide production in the transplant was comparable to the saltwater controls. Over time, we observed a partial recovery in methane production which strongly correlated with an increase in the relative abundance of three orders of hydrogenotrophic methanogens. Taken together, our results suggest that ecosystem responses to saltwater intrusion are dynamic over time as complex interactions develop between microbial communities and the soil organic carbon pool. The gradual changes in microbial community structure we observed suggest that previously freshwater wetlands may not experience an equilibration of ecosystem function until long after initial saltwater intrusion. Our results suggest that during this transitional period, likely lasting years to decades, these ecosystems may exhibit enhanced greenhouse gas production through greater soil respiration and continued methanogenesis.
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- Chansotheary Dang
- Plant and Soil Sciences, South Agricultural Sciences Building, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
- Department of Biology, Trani Center for Life Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Plant and Soil Sciences, South Agricultural Sciences Building, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- Department of Biology, Trani Center for Life Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Biology, Trani Center for Life Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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Liu Z, Cichocki N, Hübschmann T, Süring C, Ofiţeru ID, Sloan WT, Grimm V, Müller S. Neutral mechanisms and niche differentiation in steady-state insular microbial communities revealed by single cell analysis. Environ Microbiol 2018; 21:164-181. [PMID: 30289191 PMCID: PMC7379589 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 09/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
In completely insular microbial communities, evolution of community structure cannot be shaped by the immigration of new members. In addition, when those communities are run in steady state, the influence of environmental factors on their assembly is reduced. Therefore, one would expect similar community structures under steady‐state conditions. Yet, in parallel setups, variability does occur. To reveal ecological mechanisms behind this phenomenon, five parallel reactors were studied at the single‐cell level for about 100 generations and community structure variations were quantified by ecological measures. Whether community variability can be controlled was tested by implementing soft temperature stressors as potential synchronizers. The low slope of the lognormal rank‐order abundance curves indicated a predominance of neutral mechanisms, i.e., where species identity plays no role. Variations in abundance ranks of subcommunities and increase in inter‐community pairwise β‐diversity over time support this. Niche differentiation was also observed, as indicated by steeper geometric‐like rank‐order abundance curves and increased numbers of correlations between abiotic and biotic parameters during initial adaptation and after disturbances. Still, neutral forces dominated community assembly. Our findings suggest that complex microbial communities in insular steady‐state environments can be difficult to synchronize and maintained in their original or desired structure, as they are non‐equilibrium systems.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zishu Liu
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany
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- School of Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8LT, UK
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Ecological Modeling, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany
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Shen D, Langenheder S, Jürgens K. Dispersal Modifies the Diversity and Composition of Active Bacterial Communities in Response to a Salinity Disturbance. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2188. [PMID: 30294307 PMCID: PMC6159742 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Dispersal can influence the response of bacterial communities to environmental changes and disturbances. However, the extent to which dispersal contributes to the community response in dependence of the character and strength of the disturbance remains unclear. Here, we conducted a transplant experiment using dialysis bags in which bacterioplankton originating from brackish and marine regions of the Saint Lawrence Estuary were reciprocally incubated in the two environments for 5 days. Dispersal treatments were set-up by subjecting half of the microcosms in each environment to an exchange of cells between the marine and brackish assemblages at a daily exchange rate of 6% (v/v), and the other half of microcosms were kept as the non-dispersal treatments. Bacterial 16S rRNA sequencing was then used to examine the diversity and composition of the active communities. Alpha diversity of the marine communities that were exposed to the brackish environment was elevated greatly by dispersal, but declined in the absence of dispersal. This indicates that dispersal compensated the loss of diversity in the marine communities after a disturbance by introducing bacterial taxa that were able to thrive and coexist with the remaining community members under brackish conditions. On the contrary, alpha diversity of the brackish communities was not affected by dispersal in either environment. Furthermore, dispersal led to an increase in similarity between marine and brackish communities in both of the environments, with a greater similarity when the communities were incubated in the brackish environment. These results suggest that the higher initial diversity in the brackish than in the marine starting community made the resident community less susceptible to dispersing bacteria. Altogether, this study shows that dispersal modifies the diversity and composition of the active communities in response to a salinity disturbance, and enables the local adjustment of specific bacteria under brackish environmental conditions.
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- Dandan Shen
- Section of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Genetic/Limnology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Section of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany
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