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Cui Y, Wen S, Stegen JC, Hu A, Wang J. Chemodiversity of riverine dissolved organic matter: Effects of local environments and watershed characteristics. Water Res 2024; 250:121054. [PMID: 38183798 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.121054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/08/2024]
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Riverine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is crucial to global carbon cycling and aquatic ecosystems. However, the geographical patterns and environmental drivers of DOM chemodiversity remain elusive especially in the waters and sediments of continental rivers. Here, we systematically analyzed DOM molecular diversity and composition in surface waters and sediments across 97 broadly distributed rivers using data from the Worldwide Hydrobiogeochemistry Observation Network for Dynamic River Systems (WHONDRS) consortium. We further examined the associations of molecular richness and composition with geographical, climatic, physicochemical variables, as well as the watershed characteristics. We found that molecular richness significantly decreased toward higher latitudes, but only in sediments (r = -0.24, p < 0.001). The environmental variables like precipitation and non-purgeable organic carbon showed strong associations with DOM molecular richness and composition. Interestingly, we identified that less-documented factors like watershed characteristics were also related to DOM molecular richness and composition. For instance, DOM molecular richness was positively correlated with the soil sand fraction for waters, while with the percentage of forest for sediments. Importantly, the effects of watershed characteristics on DOM molecular richness and composition were generally stronger in waters than sediments. This phenomenon was further supported by the fact that 11 out of 13 watershed characteristics (e.g., the percentages of impervious area and cropland) showed more positive than negative correlations with molecular abundance especially in waters. As the percentage of forest increased, there was a continuous accumulation of the compounds with higher molecular weight, aromaticity, and degree of unsaturation. In contrast, human activities accumulated the compounds with lower molecular weight and oxygenation, and higher bioavailability. Our findings imply that it may be possible to use a small set of broadly available data types to predict DOM molecular richness and composition across diverse river systems. Elucidation of mechanisms underlying these relationships will provide further enhancements to such predictions, especially when extrapolating to unsampled systems.
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- Yifan Cui
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
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Quiroga MV, Stegen JC, Mataloni G, Cowan D, Lebre PH, Valverde A. Microdiverse bacterial clades prevail across Antarctic wetlands. Mol Ecol 2024; 33:e17189. [PMID: 37909659 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 10/06/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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Antarctica's extreme environmental conditions impose selection pressures on microbial communities. Indeed, a previous study revealed that bacterial assemblages at the Cierva Point Wetland Complex (CPWC) are shaped by strong homogeneous selection. Yet which bacterial phylogenetic clades are shaped by selection processes and their ecological strategies to thrive in such extreme conditions remain unknown. Here, we applied the phyloscore and feature-level βNTI indexes coupled with phylofactorization to successfully detect bacterial monophyletic clades subjected to homogeneous (HoS) and heterogenous (HeS) selection. Remarkably, only the HoS clades showed high relative abundance across all samples and signs of putative microdiversity. The majority of the amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) within each HoS clade clustered into a unique 97% sequence similarity operational taxonomic unit (OTU) and inhabited a specific environment (lotic, lentic or terrestrial). Our findings suggest the existence of microdiversification leading to sub-taxa niche differentiation, with putative distinct ecotypes (consisting of groups of ASVs) adapted to a specific environment. We hypothesize that HoS clades thriving in the CPWC have phylogenetically conserved traits that accelerate their rate of evolution, enabling them to adapt to strong spatio-temporally variable selection pressures. Variable selection appears to operate within clades to cause very rapid microdiversification without losing key traits that lead to high abundance. Variable and homogeneous selection, therefore, operate simultaneously but on different aspects of organismal ecology. The result is an overall signal of homogeneous selection due to rapid within-clade microdiversification caused by variable selection. It is unknown whether other systems experience this dynamic, and we encourage future work evaluating the transferability of our results.
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- María V Quiroga
- Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (CONICET-UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnologías (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Ecosystem Science Team, Richland, Washington, USA
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- Instituto de Investigación e Ingeniería Ambiental (IIIA, CONICET-UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca (IRNASA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Salamanca, Spain
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Tureţcaia AB, Garayburu-Caruso VA, Kaufman MH, Danczak RE, Stegen JC, Chu RK, Toyoda JG, Cardenas MB, Graham EB. Rethinking Aerobic Respiration in the Hyporheic Zone under Variation in Carbon and Nitrogen Stoichiometry. Environ Sci Technol 2023; 57:15499-15510. [PMID: 37795960 PMCID: PMC10586321 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c04765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/06/2023]
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Hyporheic zones (HZs)─zones of groundwater-surface water mixing─are hotspots for dissolved organic matter (DOM) and nutrient cycling that can disproportionately impact aquatic ecosystem functions. However, the mechanisms affecting DOM metabolism through space and time in HZs remain poorly understood. To resolve this gap, we investigate a recently proposed theory describing trade-offs between carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) limitations as a key regulator of HZ metabolism. We propose that throughout the extent of the HZ, a single process like aerobic respiration (AR) can be limited by both DOM thermodynamics and N content due to highly variable C/N ratios over short distances (centimeter scale). To investigate this theory, we used a large flume, continuous optode measurements of dissolved oxygen (DO), and spatially and temporally resolved molecular analysis of DOM. Carbon and N limitations were inferred from changes in the elemental stoichiometric ratio. We show sequential, depth-stratified relationships of DO with DOM thermodynamics and organic N that change across centimeter scales. In the shallow HZ with low C/N, DO was associated with the thermodynamics of DOM, while deeper in the HZ with higher C/N, DO was associated with inferred biochemical reactions involving organic N. Collectively, our results suggest that there are multiple competing processes that limit AR in the HZ. Resolving this spatiotemporal variation could improve predictions from mechanistic models, either via more highly resolved grid cells or by representing AR colimitation by DOM thermodynamics and organic N.
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- Anna B Tureţcaia
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
- Department of Earth, Environment, and Physics, Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01602, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
- School of the Environment, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
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Borton MA, McGivern BB, Willi KR, Woodcroft BJ, Mosier AC, Bambakidis T, Singleton DM, Liu F, Edirisinghe JN, Faria JP, Leleiwi I, Daly RA, Goldman AE, Wilkins MJ, Hall EK, Pennacchio C, Roux S, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Sullivan MB, Henry CS, Wood-Charlson EM, Ross MRV, Miller CS, Crump BC, Stegen JC, Wrighton KC. A functional microbiome catalog crowdsourced from North American rivers. bioRxiv 2023:2023.07.22.550117. [PMID: 37502915 PMCID: PMC10370164 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.22.550117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Predicting elemental cycles and maintaining water quality under increasing anthropogenic influence requires understanding the spatial drivers of river microbiomes. However, the unifying microbial determinants governing river biogeochemistry are hindered by a lack of genome-resolved functional insights and sampling across multiple rivers. Here we employed a community science effort to accelerate the sampling of river microbiomes to create the Genome Resolved Open Watersheds database (GROWdb). This resource profiled the identity, distribution, function, and expression of thousands of microbial genomes across rivers covering 90% of United States watersheds. We identified the most cosmopolitan microbiome members, while also revealing local drivers of strain endemism across ecological dimensions. We provide the first evidence that microbial functional trait expression followed the tenets of the River Continuum Concept, suggesting the structure and function of river microbiomes is predictable. GROWdb is a publicly available resource that paves the way for watershed predictive modeling and microbiome-based management practices.
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Kaufman MH, Torgeson J, Stegen JC. Metabolic multireactor: Practical considerations for using simple oxygen sensing optodes for high-throughput batch reactor metabolism experiments. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0284256. [PMID: 37432946 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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We present a system for carrying out small batch reactor oxygen consumption experiments on water and sediment samples for environmental questions. In general, it provides several advantages that can help researchers achieve impactful experiments at relatively low costs and high data quality. In particular, it allows for multiple reactors to be operated and their oxygen concentrations to be measured simultaneously, providing high throughput and high time-resolution data, which can be advantageous. Most existing literature on similar small batch-reactor metabolic studies is limited to either only a few samples, or only a few time points per sample, which can restrict the ability for researchers to learn from their experiments. The oxygen sensing system is based very directly on the work of Larsen, et al. [2011], and similar oxygen sensing technology is widely used in the literature. As such we do not delve deeply into the specifics of the fluorescent dye sensing mechanism. Instead, we focus on practical considerations. We describe the construction and operation of the calibration and experimental systems, and answer many of the questions likely to come up when other researchers choose to build and operate a similar system themselves (questions we ourselves had when we first built the system). In this way, we hope to provide an approachable and easy to use research article that can help other researchers construct and operate a similar system that can be tailored to ask their own research questions, with a minimum of confusion and missteps along the way.
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- Matthew H Kaufman
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Earth and Biological Sciences Division, Richland, WA, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Division, Richland, WA, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Earth and Biological Sciences Division, Richland, WA, United States of America
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Li X, Stegen JC, Yu Y, Huang J. Coordination and divergence in community assembly processes across co-occurring microbial groups separated by cell size. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1166322. [PMID: 37333654 PMCID: PMC10272581 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1166322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2023] Open
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Setting the pace of life and constraining the role of members in food webs, body size can affect the structure and dynamics of communities across multiple scales of biological organization (e.g., from the individual to the ecosystem). However, its effects on shaping microbial communities, as well as underlying assembly processes, remain poorly known. Here, we analyzed microbial diversity in the largest urban lake in China and disentangled the ecological processes governing microbial eukaryotes and prokaryotes using 16S and 18S amplicon sequencing. We found that pico/nano-eukaryotes (0.22-20 μm) and micro-eukaryotes (20-200 μm) showed significant differences in terms of both community composition and assembly processes even though they were characterized by similar phylotype diversity. We also found scale dependencies whereby micro-eukaryotes were strongly governed by environmental selection at the local scale and dispersal limitation at the regional scale. Interestingly, it was the micro-eukaryotes, rather than the pico/nano-eukaryotes, that shared similar distribution and community assembly patterns with the prokaryotes. This indicated that assembly processes of eukaryotes may be coupled or decoupled from prokaryotes' assembly processes based on eukaryote cell size. While the results support the important influence of cell size, there may be other factors leading to different levels of assembly process coupling across size classes. Additional studies are needed to quantitatively parse the influence of cell size versus other factors as drivers of coordinated and divergent community assembly processes across microbial groups. Regardless of the governing mechanisms, our results show that there are clear patterns in how assembly processes are coupled across sub-communities defined by cell size. These size-structured patterns could be used to help predict shifts in microbial food webs in response to future disturbance.
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- Xinghao Li
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response, Hubei Engineering Research Center for Rural Drinking Water Safety, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Rodríguez-Ramos J, Oliverio A, Borton MA, Danczak R, Mueller BM, Schulz H, Ellenbogen J, Flynn RM, Daly RA, Schopflin L, Shaffer M, Goldman A, Lewandowski J, Stegen JC, Wrighton KC. Spatial and temporal metagenomics of river compartments reveals viral community dynamics in an urban impacted stream. bioRxiv 2023:2023.04.04.535500. [PMID: 37066413 PMCID: PMC10104031 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.04.535500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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Although river ecosystems comprise less than 1% of Earth's total non-glaciated area, they are critical modulators of microbially and virally orchestrated global biogeochemical cycles. However, most studies either use data that is not spatially resolved or is collected at timepoints that do not reflect the short life cycles of microorganisms. As a result, the relevance of microbiome interactions and the impacts they have over time on biogeochemical cycles are poorly understood. To assess how viral and microbial communities change over time, we sampled surface water and pore water compartments of the wastewater-impacted River Erpe in Germany every 3 hours over a 48-hour period resulting in 32 metagenomes paired to geochemical and metabolite measurements. We reconstructed 6,500 viral and 1,033 microbial genomes and found distinct communities associated with each river compartment. We show that 17% of our vMAGs clustered to viruses from other ecosystems like wastewater treatment plants and rivers. Our results also indicated that 70% of the viral community was persistent in surface waters, whereas only 13% were persistent in the pore waters taken from the hyporheic zone. Finally, we predicted linkages between 73 viral genomes and 38 microbial genomes. These putatively linked hosts included members of the Competibacteraceae, which we suggest are potential contributors to carbon and nitrogen cycling. Together, these findings demonstrate that microbial and viral communities in surface waters of this urban river can exist as stable communities along a flowing river; and raise important considerations for ecosystem models attempting to constrain dynamics of river biogeochemical cycles.
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Chen K, Chen X, Stegen JC, Villa JA, Bohrer G, Song X, Chang KY, Kaufman M, Liang X, Guo Z, Roden EE, Zheng C. Vertical Hydrologic Exchange Flows Control Methane Emissions from Riverbed Sediments. Environ Sci Technol 2023; 57:4014-4026. [PMID: 36811826 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c07676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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CH4 emissions from inland waters are highly uncertain in the current global CH4 budget, especially for streams, rivers, and other lotic systems. Previous studies have attributed the strong spatiotemporal heterogeneity of riverine CH4 to environmental factors such as sediment type, water level, temperature, or particulate organic carbon abundance through correlation analysis. However, a mechanistic understanding of the basis for such heterogeneity is lacking. Here, we combine sediment CH4 data from the Hanford reach of the Columbia River with a biogeochemical-transport model to show that vertical hydrologic exchange flows (VHEFs), driven by the difference between river stage and groundwater level, determine CH4 flux at the sediment-water interface. CH4 fluxes show a nonlinear relationship with the magnitude of VHEFs, where high VHEFs introduce O2 into riverbed sediments, which inhibit CH4 production and induce CH4 oxidation, and low VHEFs cause transient reduction in CH4 flux (relative to production) due to reduced advective CH4 transport. In addition, VHEFs lead to the hysteresis of temperature rise and CH4 emissions because high river discharge caused by snowmelt in spring leads to strong downwelling flow that offsets increasing CH4 production with temperature rise. Our findings reveal how the interplay between in-stream hydrologic flux besides fluvial-wetland connectivity and microbial metabolic pathways that compete with methanogenic pathways can produce complex patterns in CH4 production and emission in riverbed alluvial sediments.
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- Kewei Chen
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- School of Geosciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70506, United States
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Fulton SG, Stegen JC, Kaufman MH, Dowd J, Thompson A. Laboratory evaluation of open source and commercial electrical conductivity sensor precision and accuracy: How do they compare? PLoS One 2023; 18:e0285092. [PMID: 37141332 PMCID: PMC10159144 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023] Open
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Variation in the electrical conductivity (EC) of water can reveal environmental disturbance and natural dynamics, including factors such as anthropogenic salinization. Broader application of open source (OS) EC sensors could provide an inexpensive method to measure water quality. While studies show that other water quality parameters can be robustly measured with sensors, a similar effort is needed to evaluate the performance of OS EC sensors. To address this need, we evaluated the accuracy (mean error, %) and precision (sample standard deviation) of OS EC sensors in the laboratory via comparison to EC calibration standards using three different OS and OS/commercial-hybrid (OS/C) EC sensors and data logger configurations and two commercial (C) EC sensors and data logger configurations. We also evaluated the effect of cable length (7.5 m and 30 m) and sensor calibration on OS sensor accuracy and precision. We found a significant difference between OS sensor mean accuracy (3.08%) and all other sensors combined (9.23%). Our study also found that EC sensor precision decreased across all sensor configurations with increasing calibration standard EC. There was also a significant difference between OS sensor mean precision (2.85 μS/cm) and the mean precision of all other sensors combined (9.12 μS/cm). Cable length did not affect OS sensor precision. Furthermore, our results suggest that future research should include evaluating how performance is impacted by combining OS sensors with commercial data loggers as this study found significantly decreased performance in OS/commercial-hybrid sensor configurations. To increase confidence in the reliability of OS sensor data, more studies such as ours are needed to further quantify OS sensor performance in terms of accuracy and precision across different settings and OS sensor and data collection platform configurations.
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- Stephanie G Fulton
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
- School of the Environment, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
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- Geology Department, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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Hu W, Hou Q, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Stegen JC, Du Q, Dong L, Ji M, Sun Y, Yao S, Gong H, Xiong J, Xia R, Liu J, Aqeel M, Akram MA, Ran J, Deng J. Continental-scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands. Environ Microbiol 2022; 24:5483-5497. [PMID: 35706137 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Archaea represent a diverse group of microorganisms often associated with extreme environments. However, an integrated understanding of biogeographical patterns of the specialist Haloarchaea and the potential generalist ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) across large-scale environmental gradients remains limited. We hypothesize that niche differentiation determines their distinct distributions along environmental gradients. To test the hypothesis, we use a continental-scale research network including 173 dryland sites across northern China. Our results demonstrate that Haloarchaea and AOA dominate topsoil archaeal communities. As hypothesized, Haloarchaea and AOA show strong niche differentiation associated with two ecosystem types mainly found in China's drylands (i.e., deserts vs. grasslands), and they differ in the degree of habitat specialization. The relative abundance and richness of Haloarchaea are higher in deserts due to specialization to relatively high soil salinity and extreme climates, while those of AOA are greater in grassland soils. Our results further indicate a divergence in ecological processes underlying the segregated distributions of Haloarchaea and AOA. Haloarchaea are governed primarily by environmental-based processes while the more generalist AOA are assembled mostly via spatial-based processes. Our findings add to existing knowledge of large-scale biogeography of topsoil archaea, advancing our predictive understanding on changes in topsoil archaeal communities in a drier world. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Weigang Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistemico. Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Av. Reina Mercedes 10, Sevilla, Spain.,Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun). Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
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- Ecosystem Science Team, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.,School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Nelson AR, Toyoda J, Chu RK, Tolić N, Garayburu-Caruso VA, Saup CM, Renteria L, Wells JR, Stegen JC, Wilkins MJ, Danczak RE. Implications of sample treatment on characterization of riverine dissolved organic matter. Environ Sci Process Impacts 2022; 24:773-782. [PMID: 35416230 DOI: 10.1039/d2em00044j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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High-resolution mass spectrometry techniques are widely used in the environmental sciences to characterize natural organic matter and, when utilizing these instruments, researchers must make multiple decisions regarding sample pre-treatment and the instrument ionization mode. To identify how these choices alter organic matter characterization and resulting conclusions, we analyzed a collection of 17 riverine samples from East River, CO (USA) under four PPL-based Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) treatment and electrospray ionization polarity (e.g., positive and negative) combinations: SPE (+), SPE (-), non-SPE (-), and non-SPE (+). The greatest number of formula assignments were achieved with SPE-treated samples due to the removal of compounds that could interfere with ionization. Furthermore, the SPE (-) treatment captured the most formulas across the widest chemical compound diversity. In addition to a reduced number of assigned formulas, the non-SPE datasets resulted in altered thermodynamic interpretations that could cascade into incomplete assumptions about the availability of organic matter pools for heterotrophic microbial respiration. Thus, we infer that the SPE (-) treatment is the best single method for characterizing environmental organic matter pools unless the focus is on lipid-like compounds, in which case we recommend a combination of SPE (-) and SPE (+) to adequately characterize these molecules.
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- School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, USA
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- School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, USA
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- School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
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Leonard LT, Vanzin GF, Garayburu-Caruso VA, Lau SS, Beutler CA, Newman AW, Mitch WA, Stegen JC, Williams KH, Sharp JO. Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream. Water Res X 2022; 15:100144. [PMID: 35542761 PMCID: PMC9079345 DOI: 10.1016/j.wroa.2022.100144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Revised: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Changes in climate, season, and vegetation can alter organic export from watersheds. While an accepted tradeoff to protect public health, disinfection processes during drinking water treatment can adversely react with organic compounds to form disinfection byproducts (DBPs). By extension, DBP monitoring can yield insights into hydrobiogeochemical dynamics within watersheds and their implications for water resource management. In this study, we analyzed temporal trends from a water treatment facility that sources water from Coal Creek in Crested Butte, Colorado. These trends revealed a long-term increase in haloacetic acid and trihalomethane formation over the period of 2005-2020. Disproportionate export of dissolved organic carbon and formation of DBPs that exceeded maximum contaminant levels were consistently recorded in association with late spring freshet. Synoptic sampling of the creek in 2020 and 2021 identified a biogeochemical hotspot for organic carbon export in the upper domain of the watershed that contained a prominent fulvic acid-like fluorescent signature. DBP formation potential analyses from this domain yielded similar ratios of regulated DBP classes to those formed at the drinking water facility. Spectrometric qualitative analyses of pre and post-reacted waters with hypochlorite indicated lignin-like and condensed hydrocarbon-like molecules were the major reactive chemical classes during chlorine-based disinfection. This study demonstrates how drinking water quality archives combined with synoptic sampling and targeted analyses can be used to identify and understand export control points for dissolved organic matter. This approach could be applied to identify and characterize analogous watersheds where seasonal or climate-associated organic matter export challenge water treatment disinfection and by extension inform watershed management and drinking water treatment.
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- Laura T. Leonard
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, United States
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, CO 81224, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, United States
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, CO 81224, United States
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, United States
- Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, United States
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Little CJ, Rizzuto M, Luhring TM, Monk JD, Nowicki RJ, Paseka RE, Stegen JC, Symons CC, Taub FB, Yen JDL. Movement with meaning: integrating information into meta‐ecology. OIKOS 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.08892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Chelsea J. Little
- Biodiversity Research Centre, Univ. of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada
- School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser Univ. Burnaby BC Canada
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- Dept of Biology, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland St. John's NL Canada
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- School of the Environment, Yale Univ. New Haven CT USA
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- Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration, Mote Marine Laboratory Summerland Key FL USA
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- Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Univ. of Minnesota Saint Paul MN USA
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- Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of California Irvine CA USA
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Univ. of Washington Seattle WA USA
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- School of BioSciences, Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, and Arthur Rylah Inst. for Environmental Reserach Heidelberg Victoria Australia
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Danczak RE, Sengupta A, Fansler SJ, Chu RK, Garayburu-Caruso VA, Renteria L, Toyoda J, Wells J, Stegen JC. Inferring the Contribution of Microbial Taxa and Organic Matter Molecular Formulas to Ecological Assembly. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:803420. [PMID: 35250925 PMCID: PMC8894727 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.803420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the assembly of communities has long been the goal of many ecological studies. While several studies have evaluated community wide ecological assembly, fewer have focused on investigating the impacts of individual members within a community or assemblage on ecological assembly. Here, we adapted a previous null model β-nearest taxon index (βNTI) to measure the contribution of individual features within an ecological community to overall assembly. This new metric, called feature-level βNTI (βNTIfeat), enables researchers to determine whether ecological features (e.g., individual microbial taxa) contribute to divergence, convergence, or have insignificant impacts across spatiotemporally resolved metacommunities or meta-assemblages. Using βNTIfeat, we revealed that unclassified microbial lineages often contributed to community divergence while diverse groups (e.g., Crenarchaeota, Alphaproteobacteria, and Gammaproteobacteria) contributed to convergence. We also demonstrate that βNTIfeat can be extended to other ecological assemblages such as organic molecules comprising organic matter (OM) pools. OM had more inconsistent trends compared to the microbial community though CHO-containing molecular formulas often contributed to convergence, while nitrogen and phosphorus-containing formulas contributed to both convergence and divergence. A network analysis was used to relate βNTIfeat values from the putatively active microbial community and the OM assemblage and examine potentially common contributions to ecological assembly across different communities/assemblages. This analysis revealed that P-containing formulas often contributed to convergence/divergence separately from other ecological features and N-containing formulas often contributed to assembly in coordination with microorganisms. Additionally, members of Family Geobacteraceae were often observed to contribute to convergence/divergence in conjunction with both N- and P-containing formulas, suggesting a coordinated ecological role for family members and the nitrogen/phosphorus cycle. Overall, we show that βNTIfeat offers opportunities to investigate the community or assemblage members, which shape the phylogenetic or functional landscape, and demonstrate the potential to evaluate potential points of coordination across various community types.
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- Robert E. Danczak
- Ecosystem Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
- *Correspondence: Robert E. Danczak,
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- Department of Biology, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States
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- Ecosystem Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Ecosystem Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Ecosystem Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Ecosystem Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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Quiroga MV, Valverde A, Mataloni G, Casa V, Stegen JC, Cowan D. The ecological assembly of bacterial communities in Antarctic wetlands varies across levels of phylogenetic resolution. Environ Microbiol 2022; 24:3486-3499. [PMID: 35049116 PMCID: PMC9541017 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
As functional traits are conserved at different phylogenetic depths, the ability to detect community assembly processes can be conditional on the phylogenetic resolution; yet most previous work quantifying their influence has focused on a single level of phylogenetic resolution. Here, we have studied the ecological assembly of bacterial communities from an Antarctic wetland complex, applying null models across different levels of phylogenetic resolution (i.e. clustering ASVs into OTUs with decreasing sequence identity thresholds). We found that the relative influence of the community assembly processes varies with phylogenetic resolution. More specifically, selection processes seem to impose stronger influence at finer (100% sequence similarity ASV) than at coarser (99%–97% sequence similarity OTUs) resolution. We identified environmental features related with the ecological processes and propose a conceptual model for the bacterial community assembly in this Antarctic ecosystem. Briefly, eco‐evolutionary processes appear to be leading to different but very closely related ASVs in lotic, lentic and terrestrial environments. In all, this study shows that assessing community assembly processes at different phylogenetic resolutions is key to improve our understanding of microbial ecology. More importantly, a failure to detect selection processes at coarser phylogenetic resolution does not imply the absence of such processes at finer resolutions.
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- María V Quiroga
- Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (INTECH, UNSAM - CONICET), Chascomús, Argentina
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca (IRNASA-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación e Ingeniería Ambiental (IIIA, UNSAM-CONICET), San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigación e Ingeniería Ambiental (IIIA, UNSAM-CONICET), San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Ecosystem Science Team, Richland, WA, USA
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- Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Sengupta A, Volkmann THM, Danczak RE, Stegen JC, Dontsova K, Abramson N, Bugaj AS, Volk MJ, Matos KA, Meira-Neto AA, Barberán A, Neilson JW, Maier RM, Chorover J, Troch PA, Meredith LK. Contrasting Community Assembly Forces Drive Microbial Structural and Potential Functional Responses to Precipitation in an Incipient Soil System. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:754698. [PMID: 34887842 PMCID: PMC8650109 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.754698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Microbial communities in incipient soil systems serve as the only biotic force shaping landscape evolution. However, the underlying ecological forces shaping microbial community structure and function are inadequately understood. We used amplicon sequencing to determine microbial taxonomic assembly and metagenome sequencing to evaluate microbial functional assembly in incipient basaltic soil subjected to precipitation. Community composition was stratified with soil depth in the pre-precipitation samples, with surficial communities maintaining their distinct structure and diversity after precipitation, while the deeper soil samples appeared to become more uniform. The structural community assembly remained deterministic in pre- and post-precipitation periods, with homogenous selection being dominant. Metagenome analysis revealed that carbon and nitrogen functional potential was assembled stochastically. Sub-populations putatively involved in the nitrogen cycle and carbon fixation experienced counteracting assembly pressures at the deepest depths, suggesting the communities may functionally assemble to respond to short-term environmental fluctuations and impact the landscape-scale response to perturbations. We propose that contrasting assembly forces impact microbial structure and potential function in an incipient landscape; in situ landscape characteristics (here homogenous parent material) drive community structure assembly, while short-term environmental fluctuations (here precipitation) shape environmental variations that are random in the soil depth profile and drive stochastic sub-population functional dynamics.
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- Aditi Sengupta
- Department of Biology, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States.,Biosphere 2, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Biosphere 2, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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Danczak RE, Goldman AE, Chu RK, Toyoda JG, Garayburu-Caruso VA, Tolić N, Graham EB, Morad JW, Renteria L, Wells JR, Herzog SP, Ward AS, Stegen JC. Ecological theory applied to environmental metabolomes reveals compositional divergence despite conserved molecular properties. Sci Total Environ 2021; 788:147409. [PMID: 34022577 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Stream and river systems transport and process substantial amounts of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from terrestrial and aquatic sources to the ocean, with global biogeochemical implications. However, the underlying mechanisms affecting the spatiotemporal organization of DOM composition are under-investigated. To understand the principles governing DOM composition, we leverage the recently proposed synthesis of metacommunity ecology and metabolomics, termed 'meta-metabolome ecology.' Applying this novel approach to a freshwater ecosystem, we demonstrated that despite similar molecular properties across metabolomes, metabolite identity significantly diverged due to environmental filtering and variations in putative biochemical transformations. We refer to this phenomenon as 'thermodynamic redundancy,' which is analogous to the ecological concept of functional redundancy. We suggest that under thermodynamic redundancy, divergent metabolomes can support equivalent biogeochemical function just as divergent ecological communities can support equivalent ecosystem function. As these analyses are performed in additional ecosystems, potentially generalizable concepts, like thermodynamic redundancy, can be revealed and provide insight into DOM dynamics.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Washington, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Washington, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Washington, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA; Oregon State University, Oregon, USA
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- O'Neil School of Public Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Indiana, USA
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- O'Neil School of Public Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Indiana, USA
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Anderson CG, Bond-Lamberty B, Stegen JC. Active layer depth and soil properties impact specific leaf area variation and ecosystem productivity in a boreal forest. PLoS One 2021; 15:e0232506. [PMID: 33382711 PMCID: PMC7775069 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Specific leaf area (SLA, leaf area per unit dry mass) is a key canopy structural characteristic, a measure of photosynthetic capacity, and an important input into many terrestrial process models. Although many studies have examined SLA variation, relatively few data exist from high latitude, climate-sensitive permafrost regions. We measured SLA and soil and topographic properties across a boreal forest permafrost transition, in which dominant tree species changed as permafrost deepened from 54 to >150 cm over 75 m hillslope transects in Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, Alaska. We characterized both linear and threshold relationships between topographic and edaphic variables and SLA and developed a conceptual model of these relationships. We found that the depth of the soil active layer above permafrost was significantly and positively correlated with SLA for both coniferous and deciduous boreal tree species. Intraspecific SLA variation was associated with a fivefold increase in net primary production, suggesting that changes in active layer depth due to permafrost thaw could strongly influence ecosystem productivity. While this is an exploratory study to begin understanding SLA variation in a non-contiguous permafrost system, our results indicate the need for more extensive evaluation across larger spatial domains. These empirical relationships and associated uncertainty can be incorporated into ecosystem models that use dynamic traits, improving our ability to predict ecosystem-level carbon cycling responses to ongoing climate change.
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- Carolyn G. Anderson
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
- * E-mail:
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
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Garayburu-Caruso VA, Danczak RE, Stegen JC, Renteria L, Mccall M, Goldman AE, Chu RK, Toyoda J, Resch CT, Torgeson JM, Wells J, Fansler S, Kumar S, Graham EB. Using Community Science to Reveal the Global Chemogeography of River Metabolomes. Metabolites 2020; 10:518. [PMID: 33419380 PMCID: PMC7767024 DOI: 10.3390/metabo10120518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
River corridor metabolomes reflect organic matter (OM) processing that drives aquatic biogeochemical cycles. Recent work highlights the power of ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry for understanding metabolome composition and river corridor metabolism. However, there have been no studies on the global chemogeography of surface water and sediment metabolomes using ultrahigh-resolution techniques. Here, we describe a community science effort from the Worldwide Hydrobiogeochemistry Observation Network for Dynamic River Systems (WHONDRS) consortium to characterize global metabolomes in surface water and sediment that span multiple stream orders and biomes. We describe the distribution of key aspects of metabolomes including elemental groups, chemical classes, indices, and inferred biochemical transformations. We show that metabolomes significantly differ across surface water and sediment and that surface water metabolomes are more rich and variable. We also use inferred biochemical transformations to identify core metabolic processes shared among surface water and sediment. Finally, we observe significant spatial variation in sediment metabolites between rivers in the eastern and western portions of the contiguous United States. Our work not only provides a basis for understanding global patterns in river corridor biogeochemical cycles but also demonstrates that community science endeavors can enable global research projects that are unfeasible with traditional research models.
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- Vanessa A. Garayburu-Caruso
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (R.K.C.); (J.T.)
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (R.K.C.); (J.T.)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA;
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; (V.A.G.-C.); (R.E.D.); (J.C.S.); (L.R.); (M.M.); (A.E.G.); (C.T.R.); (J.M.T.); (S.F.); (S.K.)
- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
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Song HS, Stegen JC, Graham EB, Lee JY, Garayburu-Caruso VA, Nelson WC, Chen X, Moulton JD, Scheibe TD. Representing Organic Matter Thermodynamics in Biogeochemical Reactions via Substrate-Explicit Modeling. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:531756. [PMID: 33193121 PMCID: PMC7644784 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.531756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Predictive biogeochemical modeling requires data-model integration that enables explicit representation of the sophisticated roles of microbial processes that transform substrates. Data from high-resolution organic matter (OM) characterization are increasingly available and can serve as a critical resource for this purpose, but their incorporation into biogeochemical models is often prohibited due to an over-simplified description of reaction networks. To fill this gap, we proposed a new concept of biogeochemical modeling-termed substrate-explicit modeling-that enables parameterizing OM-specific oxidative degradation pathways and reaction rates based on the thermodynamic properties of OM pools. Based on previous developments in the literature, we characterized the resulting kinetic models by only two parameters regardless of the complexity of OM profiles, which can greatly facilitate the integration with reactive transport models for ecosystem simulations by alleviating the difficulty in parameter identification. The two parameters include maximal growth rate (μmax) and harvest volume (Vh) (i.e., the volume that a microbe can access for harvesting energy). For every detected organic molecule in a given sample, our approach provides a systematic way to formulate reaction kinetics from chemical formula, which enables the evaluation of the impact of OM character on biogeochemical processes across conditions. In a case study of two sites with distinct OM thermodynamics using ultra high-resolution metabolomics datasets derived from Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry analyses, our method predicted how oxidative degradation is primarily driven by thermodynamic efficiency of OM consistent with experimental rate measurements (as shown by correlation coefficients of up to 0.61), and how biogeochemical reactions can vary in response to carbon and/or oxygen limitations. Lastly, we showed that incorporation of enzymatic regulations into substrate-explicit models is critical for more reasonable predictions. This result led us to present integrative biogeochemical modeling as a unifying framework that can ideally describe the dynamic interplay among microbes, enzymes, and substrates to address advanced questions and hypotheses in future studies. Altogether, the new modeling concept we propose in this work provides a foundational platform for unprecedented predictions of biogeochemical and ecosystem dynamics through enhanced integration with diverse experimental data and extant modeling approaches.
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- Hyun-Seob Song
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
- Departments of Biological Systems Engineering and Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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Lin X, Ren H, Goldman AE, Stegen JC, Scheibe TD. WHONDRS-GUI: a web application for global survey of surface water metabolites. PeerJ 2020; 8:e9277. [PMID: 32765964 PMCID: PMC7382364 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Worldwide Hydrobiogeochemistry Observation Network for Dynamic River Systems (WHONDRS) is a consortium that aims to understand complex hydrologic, biogeochemical, and microbial connections within river corridors experiencing perturbations such as dam operations, floods, and droughts. For one ongoing WHONDRS sampling campaign, surface water metabolite and microbiome samples are collected through a global survey to generate knowledge across diverse river corridors. Metabolomics analysis and a suite of geochemical analyses have been performed for collected samples through the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). The obtained knowledge and data package inform mechanistic and data-driven models to enhance predictions of outcomes of hydrologic perturbations and watershed function, one of the most critical components in model-data integration. To support efforts of the multi-domain integration and make the ever-growing data package more accessible for researchers across the world, a Shiny/R Graphical User Interface (GUI) called WHONDRS-GUI was created. RESULTS The web application can be run on any modern web browser without any programming or operational system requirements, thus providing an open, well-structured, discoverable dataset for WHONDRS. Together with a context-aware dynamic user interface, the WHONDRS-GUI has functionality for searching, compiling, integrating, visualizing and exporting different data types that can easily be used by the community. The web application and data package are available at https://data.ess-dive.lbl.gov/view/doi:10.15485/1484811, which enables users to simultaneously obtain access to the data and code and to subsequently run the web app locally. The WHONDRS-GUI is also available for online use at Shiny Server (https://xmlin.shinyapps.io/whondrs/).
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- Xinming Lin
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States of America
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Villa JA, Smith GJ, Ju Y, Renteria L, Angle JC, Arntzen E, Harding SF, Ren H, Chen X, Sawyer AH, Graham EB, Stegen JC, Wrighton KC, Bohrer G. Methane and nitrous oxide porewater concentrations and surface fluxes of a regulated river. Sci Total Environ 2020; 715:136920. [PMID: 32023513 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rivers are a critical missing component of current global GHG models. Their exclusion is mainly due to a lack of in-situ measurements and a poor understanding of the spatiotemporal dynamics of GHG production and emissions, which prevents optimal model parametrization. We combined simultaneous observations of porewater concentrations along different beach positions and depths, and surface fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide at a plot scale in a large regulated river during three water stages: rising, falling, and low. Our goal was to gain insights into the interactions between hydrological exchanges and GHG emissions and elucidate possible hypotheses that could guide future research on the mechanisms of GHG production, consumption, and transport in the hyporheic zone (HZ). Results indicate that the site functioned as a net source of methane. Surface fluxes of methane during river water stages at three beach positions (shallow, intermediate and deep) correlated with porewater concentrations of methane. However, fluxes were significantly higher in the intermediate position during the low water stage, suggesting that low residence time increased methane emissions. Vertical profiles of methane peaked at different depths, indicating an influence of the magnitude and direction of the hyporheic mixing during the different river water stages on methane production and consumption. The site acted as either a sink or a source of nitrous oxide depending on the elevation of the water column. Nitrous oxide porewater concentrations peaked at the upper layers of the sediment throughout the different water stages. River hydrological stages significantly influenced porewater concentrations and fluxes of GHG, probably by influencing heterotrophic respiration (production and consumption processes) and transport to and from the HZ. Our results highlight the importance of including dynamic hydrological exchanges when studying and modeling GHG production and consumption in the HZ of large rivers.
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- Jorge A Villa
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; School of Geosciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 323 Hamilton Hall, 611 McKinely Street, Lafayette, LA 70504, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, 105 Biological Sciences Building, 484 W. 12 Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Pacific National Northwest Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, 105 Biological Sciences Building, 484 W. 12 Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Pacific National Northwest Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Pacific National Northwest Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Pacific National Northwest Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Pacific National Northwest Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, 125 Oval Dr S, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Pacific National Northwest Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Pacific National Northwest Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, 307 University Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Nelson WC, Graham EB, Crump AR, Fansler SJ, Arntzen EV, Kennedy DW, Stegen JC. Distinct temporal diversity profiles for nitrogen cycling genes in a hyporheic microbiome. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0228165. [PMID: 31986180 PMCID: PMC6984685 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Biodiversity is thought to prevent decline in community function in response to changing environmental conditions through replacement of organisms with similar functional capacity but different optimal growth characteristics. We examined how this concept translates to the within-gene level by exploring seasonal dynamics of within-gene diversity for genes involved in nitrogen cycling in hyporheic zone communities. Nitrification genes displayed low richness—defined as the number of unique within-gene phylotypes—across seasons. Conversely, denitrification genes varied in both richness and the degree to which phylotypes were recruited or lost. These results demonstrate that there is not a universal mechanism for maintaining community functional potential for nitrogen cycling activities, even across seasonal environmental shifts to which communities would be expected to be well adapted. As such, extreme environmental changes could have very different effects on the stability of the different nitrogen cycle activities. These outcomes suggest a need to modify existing conceptual models that link biodiversity to microbiome function to incorporate within-gene diversity. Specifically, we suggest an expanded conceptualization that 1) recognizes component steps (genes) with low diversity as potential bottlenecks influencing pathway-level function, and 2) includes variation in both the number of entities (e.g. species, phylotypes) that can contribute to a given process and the turnover of those entities in response to shifting conditions. Building these concepts into process-based ecosystem models represents an exciting opportunity to connect within-gene-scale ecological dynamics to ecosystem-scale services.
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- William C. Nelson
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
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Graham EB, Stegen JC, Huang M, Chen X, Scheibe TD. Subsurface biogeochemistry is a missing link between ecology and hydrology in dam-impacted river corridors. Sci Total Environ 2019; 657:435-445. [PMID: 30550907 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2018] [Revised: 11/27/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Global investment in hydropower is rapidly increasing, fueled by a need to manage water availability and by incentives promoting renewable energy sources. This expansion poses unrecognized risks to the world's vulnerable freshwater ecosystems. While many hydropower impacts have been investigated, dam-induced alterations to subsurface processes influence river corridor ecosystem health in ways that remain poorly understood. We advocate for a better understanding of dam impacts on subsurface biogeochemical activity, its connection to hydrology, and follow-on trophic cascades within the broader river corridor. We delineate an integrated view of hydropower impacts in which dam-induced changes to surface water flow regimes generate changes in surface-subsurface hydrologic exchange flows (HEFs) that subsequently (1) regulate resource availability for benthic microorganisms at the base of aquatic food webs and (2) impose kinetic constraints on biogeochemical reactions and organismal growth across a range of trophic levels. These HEF-driven effects on river corridor food webs, as mediated by subsurface biogeochemistry, are a key knowledge gap in our assessment of hydropower sustainability and putatively combine with other, more well-known dam impacts to result in significant changes to river corridor health. We suggest targeted laboratory and field-based studies to link hydrobiogeochemical models used to predict heat transport, biogeochemical rates, and hydrologic flow with ecological models that incorporate biomass changes in specific categories of organisms. Doing so will enable predictions of feedbacks among hydrology, temperature, biogeochemical rates, organismal abundances, and resource transfer across trophic levels. This understanding of dam impacts on subsurface hydrobiogeochemistry and its connection to the broader aquatic food web is fundamental to enabling mechanism-based decision making for sustainable hydropower operations.
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- Emily B Graham
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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Feng Y, Chen R, Stegen JC, Guo Z, Zhang J, Li Z, Lin X. Two key features influencing community assembly processes at regional scale: Initial state and degree of change in environmental conditions. Mol Ecol 2018; 27:5238-5251. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.14914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Revised: 10/03/2018] [Accepted: 10/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Youzhi Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing China
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate Ecosystem Sciences Team Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland Washington
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing China
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Graham EB, Crump AR, Kennedy DW, Arntzen E, Fansler S, Purvine SO, Nicora CD, Nelson W, Tfaily MM, Stegen JC. Multi 'omics comparison reveals metabolome biochemistry, not microbiome composition or gene expression, corresponds to elevated biogeochemical function in the hyporheic zone. Sci Total Environ 2018; 642:742-753. [PMID: 29920461 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Revised: 05/21/2018] [Accepted: 05/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Biogeochemical hotspots are pervasive at terrestrial-aquatic interfaces, particularly within groundwater-surface water mixing zones (hyporheic zones), and they are critical to understanding spatiotemporal variation in biogeochemical cycling. Here, we use multi 'omic comparisons of hotspots to low-activity sediments to gain mechanistic insight into hyporheic zone organic matter processing. We hypothesized that microbiome structure and function, as described by metagenomics and metaproteomics, would distinguish hotspots from low-activity sediments by shifting metabolism towards carbohydrate-utilizing pathways and elucidate discrete mechanisms governing organic matter processing in each location. We also expected these differences to be reflected in the metabolome, whereby hotspot carbon (C) pools and metabolite transformations therein would be enriched in sugar-associated compounds. In contrast to expectations, we found pronounced phenotypic plasticity in the hyporheic zone microbiome that was denoted by similar microbiome structure, functional potential, and expression across sediments with dissimilar metabolic rates. Instead, diverse nitrogenous metabolites and biochemical transformations characterized hotspots. Metabolomes also corresponded more strongly to aerobic metabolism than bulk C or N content only (explaining 67% vs. 42% and 37% of variation respectively), and bulk C and N did not improve statistical models based on metabolome composition alone. These results point to organic nitrogen as a significant regulatory factor influencing hyporheic zone organic matter processing. Based on our findings, we propose incorporating knowledge of metabolic pathways associated with different chemical fractions of C pools into ecosystem models will enhance prediction accuracy.
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- Emily B Graham
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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Bottos EM, Kennedy DW, Romero EB, Fansler SJ, Brown JM, Bramer LM, Chu RK, Tfaily MM, Jansson JK, Stegen JC. Dispersal limitation and thermodynamic constraints govern spatial structure of permafrost microbial communities. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2018; 94:5037918. [DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 05/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Eric M Bottos
- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, 805 TRU Way, Kamloops, BC, V2C 0C8, Canada
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Computational Biology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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Little is known about the factors affecting the relative influences of stochastic and deterministic processes that govern the assembly of microbial communities in successional soils. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis of bacterial communities using six different successional soil datasets distributed across different regions. Different relationships between pH and successional age across these datasets allowed us to separate the influences of successional age (i.e., time) from soil pH. We found that extreme acidic or alkaline pH conditions lead to assembly of phylogenetically more clustered bacterial communities through deterministic processes, whereas pH conditions close to neutral lead to phylogenetically less clustered bacterial communities with more stochasticity. We suggest that the influence of pH, rather than successional age, is the main driving force in producing trends in phylogenetic assembly of bacteria, and that pH also influences the relative balance of stochastic and deterministic processes along successional soils. Given that pH had a much stronger association with community assembly than did successional age, we evaluated whether the inferred influence of pH was maintained when studying globally distributed samples collected without regard for successional age. This dataset confirmed the strong influence of pH, suggesting that the influence of soil pH on community assembly processes occurs globally. Extreme pH conditions likely exert more stringent limits on survival and fitness, imposing strong selective pressures through ecological and evolutionary time. Taken together, these findings suggest that the degree to which stochastic vs. deterministic processes shape soil bacterial community assembly is a consequence of soil pH rather than successional age.
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- Binu M Tripathi
- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, 21990, Republic of Korea
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, 21990, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, UK.
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- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, 21990, Republic of Korea.
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Stegen JC, Johnson T, Fredrickson JK, Wilkins MJ, Konopka AE, Nelson WC, Arntzen EV, Chrisler WB, Chu RK, Fansler SJ, Graham EB, Kennedy DW, Resch CT, Tfaily M, Zachara J. Publisher Correction: Influences of organic carbon speciation on hyporheic corridor biogeochemistry and microbial ecology. Nat Commun 2018. [PMID: 29515121 PMCID: PMC5841274 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03572-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- James C Stegen
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.,School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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Stegen JC, Johnson T, Fredrickson JK, Wilkins MJ, Konopka AE, Nelson WC, Arntzen EV, Chrisler WB, Chu RK, Fansler SJ, Graham EB, Kennedy DW, Resch CT, Tfaily M, Zachara J. Influences of organic carbon speciation on hyporheic corridor biogeochemistry and microbial ecology. Nat Commun 2018; 9:585. [PMID: 29422537 PMCID: PMC5805721 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02922-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
The hyporheic corridor (HC) encompasses the river–groundwater continuum, where the mixing of groundwater (GW) with river water (RW) in the HC can stimulate biogeochemical activity. Here we propose a novel thermodynamic mechanism underlying this phenomenon and reveal broader impacts on dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and microbial ecology. We show that thermodynamically favorable DOC accumulates in GW despite lower DOC concentration, and that RW contains thermodynamically less-favorable DOC, but at higher concentrations. This indicates that GW DOC is protected from microbial oxidation by low total energy within the DOC pool, whereas RW DOC is protected by lower thermodynamic favorability of carbon species. We propose that GW–RW mixing overcomes these protections and stimulates respiration. Mixing models coupled with geophysical and molecular analyses further reveal tipping points in spatiotemporal dynamics of DOC and indicate important hydrology–biochemistry–microbial feedbacks. Previously unrecognized thermodynamic mechanisms regulated by GW–RW mixing may therefore strongly influence biogeochemical and microbial dynamics in riverine ecosystems. The mechanisms responsible for stimulating biogeochemical activity in the hyporheic corridor (HC) are poorly understood. Here, the authors find that previously unrecognized thermodynamic mechanisms regulated by groundwater-river water mixing may strongly influence HC biogeochemical and microbial dynamics.
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- James C Stegen
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Department of Microbiology The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.,School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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Song HS, Thomas DG, Stegen JC, Li M, Liu C, Song X, Chen X, Fredrickson JK, Zachara JM, Scheibe TD. Regulation-Structured Dynamic Metabolic Model Provides a Potential Mechanism for Delayed Enzyme Response in Denitrification Process. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1866. [PMID: 29046664 PMCID: PMC5627231 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In a recent study of denitrification dynamics in hyporheic zone sediments, we observed a significant time lag (up to several days) in enzymatic response to the changes in substrate concentration. To explore an underlying mechanism and understand the interactive dynamics between enzymes and nutrients, we developed a trait-based model that associates a community's traits with functional enzymes, instead of typically used species guilds (or functional guilds). This enzyme-based formulation allows to collectively describe biogeochemical functions of microbial communities without directly parameterizing the dynamics of species guilds, therefore being scalable to complex communities. As a key component of modeling, we accounted for microbial regulation occurring through transcriptional and translational processes, the dynamics of which was parameterized based on the temporal profiles of enzyme concentrations measured using a new signature peptide-based method. The simulation results using the resulting model showed several days of a time lag in enzymatic responses as observed in experiments. Further, the model showed that the delayed enzymatic reactions could be primarily controlled by transcriptional responses and that the dynamics of transcripts and enzymes are closely correlated. The developed model can serve as a useful tool for predicting biogeochemical processes in natural environments, either independently or through integration with hydrologic flow simulators.
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- Hyun-Seob Song
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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Yan Q, Stegen JC, Yu Y, Deng Y, Li X, Wu S, Dai L, Zhang X, Li J, Wang C, Ni J, Li X, Hu H, Xiao F, Feng W, Ning D, He Z, Van Nostrand JD, Wu L, Zhou J. Nearly a decade-long repeatable seasonal diversity patterns of bacterioplankton communities in the eutrophic Lake Donghu (Wuhan, China). Mol Ecol 2017; 26:3839-3850. [PMID: 28437572 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2017] [Revised: 04/11/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Uncovering which environmental factors govern community diversity patterns and how ecological processes drive community turnover are key questions related to understand the community assembly. However, the ecological mechanisms regulating long-term variations of bacterioplankton communities in lake ecosystems remain poorly understood. Here we present nearly a decade-long study of bacterioplankton communities from the eutrophic Lake Donghu (Wuhan, China) using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing with MiSeq platform. We found strong repeatable seasonal diversity patterns in terms of both common (detected in more than 50% samples) and dominant (relative abundance >1%) bacterial taxa turnover. Moreover, community composition tracked the seasonal temperature gradient, indicating that temperature is a key environmental factor controlling observed diversity patterns. Total phosphorus also contributed significantly to the seasonal shifts in bacterioplankton composition. However, any spatial pattern of bacterioplankton communities across the main lake areas within season was overwhelmed by their temporal variabilities. Phylogenetic analysis further indicated that 75%-82% of community turnover was governed by homogeneous selection due to consistent environmental conditions within seasons, suggesting that the microbial communities in Lake Donghu are mainly controlled by niche-based processes. Therefore, dominant niches available within seasons might be occupied by similar combinations of bacterial taxa with modest dispersal rates throughout different lake areas.
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- Qingyun Yan
- Environmental Microbiome Research Center and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Environmental Microbiome Research Center and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Environmental Microbiome Research Center and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.,Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.,State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.,Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Jurburg SD, Nunes I, Stegen JC, Le Roux X, Priemé A, Sørensen SJ, Salles JF. Autogenic succession and deterministic recovery following disturbance in soil bacterial communities. Sci Rep 2017; 7:45691. [PMID: 28383027 PMCID: PMC5382530 DOI: 10.1038/srep45691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The response of bacterial communities to environmental change may affect local to global nutrient cycles. However the dynamics of these communities following disturbance are poorly understood, given that they are often evaluated over macro-ecological time scales and end-point measurements. In order to understand the successional trajectory of soil bacterial communities following disturbances and the mechanisms controlling these dynamics at a scale relevant for these organisms, we subjected soil microcosms to a heat disturbance and followed the community composition of active bacteria over 50 days. The disturbance imposed a strong selective pressure that persisted for up to 10 days, after which the importance of stochastic processes increased. Three successional stages were detected: a primary response in which surviving taxa increased in abundance; a secondary response phase during which community dynamics slowed down, and a stability phase (after 29 days), during which the community tended towards its original composition. Phylogenetic turnover patterns indicated that the community experienced stronger deterministic selection during recovery. Thus, soil bacterial communities, despite their extreme diversity and functional redundancy, respond to disturbances like many macro-ecological systems and exhibit path-dependent, autogenic dynamics during secondary succession. These results highlight the role of autogenic factors and successional dynamics in microbial recovery.
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- Stephanie D Jurburg
- Genomic Research in Ecology and Evolution in Nature (GREEN), Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, Groningen, 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Section of Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Building 1, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Earth and Biological Sciences, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Microbial Ecology Center, INRA (UMR 1418), CNRS, Université Lyon1, Université de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Section of Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Building 1, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section of Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Building 1, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Genomic Research in Ecology and Evolution in Nature (GREEN), Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, Groningen, 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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Graham EB, Crump AR, Resch CT, Fansler S, Arntzen E, Kennedy DW, Fredrickson JK, Stegen JC. Deterministic influences exceed dispersal effects on hydrologically-connected microbiomes. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:1552-1567. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2016] [Revised: 02/08/2017] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- Emily B. Graham
- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland WA USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland WA USA
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- Geochemistry Department, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland WA USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland WA USA
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- Environmental Compliance and Emergency Preparation, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland WA USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland WA USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland WA USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland WA USA
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Graham EB, Crump AR, Resch CT, Fansler S, Arntzen E, Kennedy DW, Fredrickson JK, Stegen JC. Coupling Spatiotemporal Community Assembly Processes to Changes in Microbial Metabolism. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1949. [PMID: 28123379 PMCID: PMC5226446 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Community assembly processes generate shifts in species abundances that influence ecosystem cycling of carbon and nutrients, yet our understanding of assembly remains largely separate from ecosystem-level functioning. Here, we investigate relationships between assembly and changes in microbial metabolism across space and time in hyporheic microbial communities. We pair sampling of two habitat types (i.e., attached and planktonic) through seasonal and sub-hourly hydrologic fluctuation with null modeling and temporally explicit multivariate statistics. We demonstrate that multiple selective pressures-imposed by sediment and porewater physicochemistry-integrate to generate changes in microbial community composition at distinct timescales among habitat types. These changes in composition are reflective of contrasting associations of Betaproteobacteria and Thaumarchaeota with ecological selection and with seasonal changes in microbial metabolism. We present a conceptual model based on our results in which metabolism increases when oscillating selective pressures oppose temporally stable selective pressures. Our conceptual model is pertinent to both macrobial and microbial systems experiencing multiple selective pressures and presents an avenue for assimilating community assembly processes into predictions of ecosystem-level functioning.
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- Emily B Graham
- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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Stegen JC, Hurlbert AH, Bond-Lamberty B, Chen X, Anderson CG, Chu RK, Dini-Andreote F, Fansler SJ, Hess NJ, Tfaily M. Aligning the Measurement of Microbial Diversity with Macroecological Theory. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1487. [PMID: 27721808 PMCID: PMC5033968 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The number of microbial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) within a community is akin to species richness within plant/animal (“macrobial”) systems. A large literature documents OTU richness patterns, drawing comparisons to macrobial theory. There is, however, an unrecognized fundamental disconnect between OTU richness and macrobial theory: OTU richness is commonly estimated on a per-individual basis, while macrobial richness is estimated per-area. Furthermore, the range or extent of sampled environmental conditions can strongly influence a study's outcomes and conclusions, but this is not commonly addressed when studying OTU richness. Here we (i) propose a new sampling approach that estimates OTU richness per-mass of soil, which results in strong support for species energy theory, (ii) use data reduction to show how support for niche conservatism emerges when sampling across a restricted range of environmental conditions, and (iii) show how additional insights into drivers of OTU richness can be generated by combining different sampling methods while simultaneously considering patterns that emerge by restricting the range of environmental conditions. We propose that a more rigorous connection between microbial ecology and macrobial theory can be facilitated by exploring how changes in OTU richness units and environmental extent influence outcomes of data analysis. While fundamental differences between microbial and macrobial systems persist (e.g., species concepts), we suggest that closer attention to units and scale provide tangible and immediate improvements to our understanding of the processes governing OTU richness and how those processes relate to drivers of macrobial species richness.
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- James C Stegen
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences Division Richland, WA, USA
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- Biology Department and Curriculum in Environment and Ecology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute College Park, MD, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division Richland, WA, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences Division Richland, WA, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Microbial Ecology Cluster, Genomics Research in Ecology and Evolution in Nature (GREEN), Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences Division Richland, WA, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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Veach AM, Stegen JC, Brown SP, Dodds WK, Jumpponen A. Spatial and successional dynamics of microbial biofilm communities in a grassland stream ecosystem. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:4674-88. [PMID: 27481285 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Revised: 07/16/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Biofilms represent a metabolically active and structurally complex component of freshwater ecosystems. Ephemeral prairie streams are hydrologically harsh and prone to frequent perturbation. Elucidating both functional and structural community changes over time within prairie streams provides a general understanding of microbial responses to environmental disturbance. We examined microbial succession of biofilm communities at three sites in a third-order stream at Konza Prairie over a 2- to 64-day period. Microbial abundance (bacterial abundance, chlorophyll a concentrations) increased and never plateaued during the experiment. Net primary productivity (net balance of oxygen consumption and production) of the developing biofilms did not differ statistically from zero until 64 days suggesting a balance of the use of autochthonous and allochthonous energy sources until late succession. Bacterial communities (MiSeq analyses of the V4 region of 16S rRNA) established quickly. Bacterial richness, diversity and evenness were high after 2 days and increased over time. Several dominant bacterial phyla (Beta-, Alphaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Gemmatimonadetes, Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi) and genera (Luteolibacter, Flavobacterium, Gemmatimonas, Hydrogenophaga) differed in relative abundance over space and time. Bacterial community composition differed across both space and successional time. Pairwise comparisons of phylogenetic turnover in bacterial community composition indicated that early-stage succession (≤16 days) was driven by stochastic processes, whereas later stages were driven by deterministic selection regardless of site. Our data suggest that microbial biofilms predictably develop both functionally and structurally indicating distinct successional trajectories of bacterial communities in this ecosystem.
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- Allison M Veach
- Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66502, USA. .,Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66502, USA.,Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66502, USA
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- Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66502, USA
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Stegen JC, Fredrickson JK, Wilkins MJ, Konopka AE, Nelson WC, Arntzen EV, Chrisler WB, Chu RK, Danczak RE, Fansler SJ, Kennedy DW, Resch CT, Tfaily M. Groundwater-surface water mixing shifts ecological assembly processes and stimulates organic carbon turnover. Nat Commun 2016; 7:11237. [PMID: 27052662 PMCID: PMC4829693 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Environmental transitions often result in resource mixtures that overcome limitations to microbial metabolism, resulting in biogeochemical hotspots and moments. Riverine systems, where groundwater mixes with surface water (the hyporheic zone), are spatially complex and temporally dynamic, making development of predictive models challenging. Spatial and temporal variations in hyporheic zone microbial communities are a key, but understudied, component of riverine biogeochemical function. Here, to investigate the coupling among groundwater-surface water mixing, microbial communities and biogeochemistry, we apply ecological theory, aqueous biogeochemistry, DNA sequencing and ultra-high-resolution organic carbon profiling to field samples collected across times and locations representing a broad range of mixing conditions. Our results indicate that groundwater-surface water mixing in the hyporheic zone stimulates heterotrophic respiration, alters organic carbon composition, causes ecological processes to shift from stochastic to deterministic and is associated with elevated abundances of microbial taxa that may degrade a broad suite of organic compounds.
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- James C Stegen
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.,School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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Hu W, Zhang Q, Tian T, Li D, Cheng G, Mu J, Wu Q, Niu F, Stegen JC, An L, Feng H. Relative Roles of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes in Driving the Vertical Distribution of Bacterial Communities in a Permafrost Core from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0145747. [PMID: 26699734 PMCID: PMC4689587 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Understanding the processes that influence the structure of biotic communities is one of the major ecological topics, and both stochastic and deterministic processes are expected to be at work simultaneously in most communities. Here, we investigated the vertical distribution patterns of bacterial communities in a 10-m-long soil core taken within permafrost of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. To get a better understanding of the forces that govern these patterns, we examined the diversity and structure of bacterial communities, and the change in community composition along the vertical distance (spatial turnover) from both taxonomic and phylogenetic perspectives. Measures of taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity revealed that bacterial community composition changed continuously along the soil core, and showed a vertical distance-decay relationship. Multiple stepwise regression analysis suggested that bacterial alpha diversity and phylogenetic structure were strongly correlated with soil conductivity and pH but weakly correlated with depth. There was evidence that deterministic and stochastic processes collectively drived bacterial vertically-structured pattern. Bacterial communities in five soil horizons (two originated from the active layer and three from permafrost) of the permafrost core were phylogenetically random, indicator of stochastic processes. However, we found a stronger effect of deterministic processes related to soil pH, conductivity, and organic carbon content that were structuring the bacterial communities. We therefore conclude that the vertical distribution of bacterial communities was governed primarily by deterministic ecological selection, although stochastic processes were also at work. Furthermore, the strong impact of environmental conditions (for example, soil physicochemical parameters and seasonal freeze-thaw cycles) on these communities underlines the sensitivity of permafrost microorganisms to climate change and potentially subsequent permafrost thaw.
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- Weigang Hu
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering (SKLFSE), Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering (SKLFSE), Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States of America
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Nelson WC, Stegen JC. The reduced genomes of Parcubacteria (OD1) contain signatures of a symbiotic lifestyle. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:713. [PMID: 26257709 PMCID: PMC4508563 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2015] [Accepted: 06/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Candidate phylum OD1 bacteria (also referred to as Parcubacteria) have been identified in a broad range of anoxic environments through community survey analysis. Although none of these species have been isolated in the laboratory, several genome sequences have been reconstructed from metagenomic sequence data and single-cell sequencing. The organisms have small (generally <1 Mb) genomes with severely reduced metabolic capabilities. We have reconstructed 8 partial to near-complete OD1 genomes from oxic groundwater samples, and compared them against existing genomic data. The conserved core gene set comprises 202 genes, or ~28% of the genomic complement. “Housekeeping” genes and genes for biosynthesis of peptidoglycan and Type IV pilus production are conserved. Gene sets for biosynthesis of cofactors, amino acids, nucleotides, and fatty acids are absent entirely or greatly reduced. The only aspects of energy metabolism conserved are the non-oxidative branch of the pentose-phosphate shunt and central glycolysis. These organisms also lack some activities conserved in almost all other known bacterial genomes, including signal recognition particle, pseudouridine synthase A, and FAD synthase. Pan-genome analysis indicates a broad genotypic diversity and perhaps a highly fluid gene complement, indicating historical adaptation to a wide range of growth environments and a high degree of specialization. The genomes were examined for signatures suggesting either a free-living, streamlined lifestyle, or a symbiotic lifestyle. The lack of biosynthetic capabilities and DNA repair, along with the presence of potential attachment and adhesion proteins suggest that the Parcubacteria are ectosymbionts or parasites of other organisms. The wide diversity of genes that potentially mediate cell-cell contact suggests a broad range of partner/prey organisms across the phylum.
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- William C Nelson
- Microbiology, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Microbiology, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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Stegen JC, Lin X, Fredrickson JK, Konopka AE. Estimating and mapping ecological processes influencing microbial community assembly. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:370. [PMID: 25983725 PMCID: PMC4416444 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 375] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2014] [Accepted: 04/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Ecological community assembly is governed by a combination of (i) selection resulting from among-taxa differences in performance; (ii) dispersal resulting from organismal movement; and (iii) ecological drift resulting from stochastic changes in population sizes. The relative importance and nature of these processes can vary across environments. Selection can be homogeneous or variable, and while dispersal is a rate, we conceptualize extreme dispersal rates as two categories; dispersal limitation results from limited exchange of organisms among communities, and homogenizing dispersal results from high levels of organism exchange. To estimate the influence and spatial variation of each process we extend a recently developed statistical framework, use a simulation model to evaluate the accuracy of the extended framework, and use the framework to examine subsurface microbial communities over two geologic formations. For each subsurface community we estimate the degree to which it is influenced by homogeneous selection, variable selection, dispersal limitation, and homogenizing dispersal. Our analyses revealed that the relative influences of these ecological processes vary substantially across communities even within a geologic formation. We further identify environmental and spatial features associated with each ecological process, which allowed mapping of spatial variation in ecological-process-influences. The resulting maps provide a new lens through which ecological systems can be understood; in the subsurface system investigated here they revealed that the influence of variable selection was associated with the rate at which redox conditions change with subsurface depth.
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- James C Stegen
- Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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- Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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Martínez I, Stegen JC, Maldonado-Gómez MX, Eren AM, Siba PM, Greenhill AR, Walter J. The gut microbiota of rural papua new guineans: composition, diversity patterns, and ecological processes. Cell Rep 2015; 11:527-38. [PMID: 25892234 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 366] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Revised: 03/07/2015] [Accepted: 03/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Although recent research revealed an impact of westernization on diversity and composition of the human gut microbiota, the exact consequences on metacommunity characteristics are insufficiently understood, and the underlying ecological mechanisms have not been elucidated. Here, we have compared the fecal microbiota of adults from two non-industrialized regions in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with that of United States (US) residents. Papua New Guineans harbor communities with greater bacterial diversity, lower inter-individual variation, vastly different abundance profiles, and bacterial lineages undetectable in US residents. A quantification of the ecological processes that govern community assembly identified bacterial dispersal as the dominant process that shapes the microbiome in PNG but not in the US. These findings suggest that the microbiome alterations detected in industrialized societies might arise from modern lifestyle factors limiting bacterial dispersal, which has implications for human health and the development of strategies aimed to redress the impact of westernization.
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- Inés Martínez
- Department of Agriculture, Food, and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada; Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province 441, Papua New Guinea
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- Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province 441, Papua New Guinea; School of Applied and Biomedical Sciences, Federation University Australia, Churchill, VIC 3842, Australia.
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada; Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada.
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Dini-Andreote F, Stegen JC, van Elsas JD, Salles JF. Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:E1326-32. [PMID: 25733885 PMCID: PMC4371938 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414261112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 631] [Impact Index Per Article: 70.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Ecological succession and the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes are two major themes within microbial ecology, but these conceptual domains have mostly developed independent of each other. Here we provide a framework that integrates shifts in community assembly processes with microbial primary succession to better understand mechanisms governing the stochastic/deterministic balance. Synthesizing previous work, we devised a conceptual model that links ecosystem development to alternative hypotheses related to shifts in ecological assembly processes. Conceptual model hypotheses were tested by coupling spatiotemporal data on soil bacterial communities with environmental conditions in a salt marsh chronosequence spanning 105 years of succession. Analyses within successional stages showed community composition to be initially governed by stochasticity, but as succession proceeded, there was a progressive increase in deterministic selection correlated with increasing sodium concentration. Analyses of community turnover among successional stages--which provide a larger spatiotemporal scale relative to within stage analyses--revealed that changes in the concentration of soil organic matter were the main predictor of the type and relative influence of determinism. Taken together, these results suggest scale-dependency in the mechanisms underlying selection. To better understand mechanisms governing these patterns, we developed an ecological simulation model that revealed how changes in selective environments cause shifts in the stochastic/deterministic balance. Finally, we propose an extended--and experimentally testable--conceptual model integrating ecological assembly processes with primary and secondary succession. This framework provides a priori hypotheses for future experiments, thereby facilitating a systematic approach to understand assembly and succession in microbial communities across ecosystems.
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- Francisco Dini-Andreote
- Department of Microbial Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands; and
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands; and
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands; and
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Hurlbert AH, Stegen JC. On the processes generating latitudinal richness gradients: identifying diagnostic patterns and predictions. Front Genet 2014; 5:420. [PMID: 25520738 PMCID: PMC4251432 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Accepted: 11/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We use a simulation model to examine four of the most common hypotheses for the latitudinal richness gradient and identify patterns that might be diagnostic of those four hypotheses. The hypotheses examined include (1) tropical niche conservatism, or the idea that the tropics are more diverse because a tropical clade origin has allowed more time for diversification in the tropics and has resulted in few species adapted to extra-tropical climates. (2) The ecological limits hypothesis suggests that species richness is limited by the amount of biologically available energy in a region. (3) The speciation rates hypothesis suggests that the latitudinal gradient arises from a gradient in speciation rates. (4) Finally, the tropical stability hypothesis argues that climatic fluctuations and glacial cycles in extratropical regions have led to greater extinction rates and less opportunity for specialization relative to the tropics. We found that tropical niche conservatism can be distinguished from the other three scenarios by phylogenies which are more balanced than expected, no relationship between mean root distance (MRD) and richness across regions, and a homogeneous rate of speciation across clades and through time. The energy gradient, speciation gradient, and disturbance gradient scenarios all produced phylogenies which were more imbalanced than expected, showed a negative relationship between MRD and richness, and diversity-dependence of speciation rate estimates through time. We found that the relationship between speciation rates and latitude could distinguish among these three scenarios, with no relation expected under the ecological limits hypothesis, a negative relationship expected under the speciation rates hypothesis, and a positive relationship expected under the tropical stability hypothesis. We emphasize the importance of considering multiple hypotheses and focusing on diagnostic predictions instead of predictions that are consistent with multiple hypotheses.
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- Allen H Hurlbert
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA ; Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Hurlbert AH, Stegen JC. When should species richness be energy limited, and how would we know? Ecol Lett 2014; 17:401-13. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2013] [Revised: 09/02/2013] [Accepted: 12/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Allen H. Hurlbert
- Department of Biology; University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill NC 27599-3280 USA
- Curriculum for Environment and Ecology; University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill NC 27599 USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; 902 Battelle Blvd P.O. Box 999, MSIN J4-18 Richland WA 99352 USA
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Lindemann SR, Moran JJ, Stegen JC, Renslow RS, Hutchison JR, Cole JK, Dohnalkova AC, Tremblay J, Singh K, Malfatti SA, Chen F, Tringe SG, Beyenal H, Fredrickson JK. The epsomitic phototrophic microbial mat of Hot Lake, Washington: community structural responses to seasonal cycling. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:323. [PMID: 24312082 PMCID: PMC3826063 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2013] [Accepted: 10/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Phototrophic microbial mats are compact ecosystems composed of highly interactive organisms in which energy and element cycling take place over millimeter-to-centimeter-scale distances. Although microbial mats are common in hypersaline environments, they have not been extensively characterized in systems dominated by divalent ions. Hot Lake is a meromictic, epsomitic lake that occupies a small, endorheic basin in north-central Washington. The lake harbors a benthic, phototrophic mat that assembles each spring, disassembles each fall, and is subject to greater than tenfold variation in salinity (primarily Mg(2+) and SO(2-) 4) and irradiation over the annual cycle. We examined spatiotemporal variation in the mat community at five time points throughout the annual cycle with respect to prevailing physicochemical parameters by amplicon sequencing of the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene coupled to near-full-length 16S RNA clone sequences. The composition of these microbial communities was relatively stable over the seasonal cycle and included dominant populations of Cyanobacteria, primarily a group IV cyanobacterium (Leptolyngbya), and Alphaproteobacteria (specifically, members of Rhodobacteraceae and Geminicoccus). Members of Gammaproteobacteria (e.g., Thioalkalivibrio and Halochromatium) and Deltaproteobacteria (e.g., Desulfofustis) that are likely to be involved in sulfur cycling peaked in summer and declined significantly by mid-fall, mirroring larger trends in mat community richness and evenness. Phylogenetic turnover analysis of abundant phylotypes employing environmental metadata suggests that seasonal shifts in light variability exert a dominant influence on the composition of Hot Lake microbial mat communities. The seasonal development and organization of these structured microbial mats provide opportunities for analysis of the temporal and physical dynamics that feed back to community function.
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- Stephen R Lindemann
- Biological Sciences Division, Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA
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Wang J, Shen J, Wu Y, Tu C, Soininen J, Stegen JC, He J, Liu X, Zhang L, Zhang E. Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes. ISME J 2013; 7:1310-21. [PMID: 23446837 PMCID: PMC3695296 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 339] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2012] [Revised: 01/23/2013] [Accepted: 01/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Increasing evidence has emerged for non-random spatial distributions of microbes, but knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among ecosystems is lacking. For instance, some studies showed that deterministic processes such as habitat specialization are important, while other studies hold that bacterial communities are assembled by stochastic forces. Here we examine the relative influence of deterministic and stochastic processes for bacterial communities from subsurface environments, stream biofilm, lake water, lake sediment and soil using pyrosequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene. We show that there is a general pattern in phylogenetic signal in species ecological niches across recent evolutionary time for all studied habitats, enabling us to infer the influences of community assembly processes from patterns of phylogenetic turnover in community composition. The phylogenetic dissimilarities among-habitat types were significantly higher than within them, and the communities were clustered according to their original habitat types. For communities within-habitat types, the highest phylogenetic turnover rate through space was observed in subsurface environments, followed by stream biofilm on mountainsides, whereas the sediment assemblages across regional scales showed the lowest turnover rate. Quantifying phylogenetic turnover as the deviation from a null expectation suggested that measured environmental variables imposed strong selection on bacterial communities for nearly all sample groups. For three sample groups, spatial distance reflected unmeasured environmental variables that impose selection, as opposed to spatial isolation. Such characterization of spatial and environmental variables proved essential for proper interpretation of partial Mantel results based on observed beta diversity metrics. In summary, our results clearly indicate a dominant role of deterministic processes on bacterial assemblages and highlight that bacteria show strong habitat associations that have likely emerged through evolutionary adaptation.
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- Jianjun Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
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Bentley LP, Stegen JC, Savage VM, Smith DD, von Allmen EI, Sperry JS, Reich PB, Enquist BJ. An empirical assessment of tree branching networks and implications for plant allometric scaling models. Ecol Lett 2013; 16:1069-78. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2012] [Revised: 07/24/2012] [Accepted: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Lisa Patrick Bentley
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of Arizona; Tucson; AZ; 85721; USA
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- Fundamental and Computational Sciences; Biological Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland; WA; 99352; USA
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- Department of Biology; University of Utah; Salt Lake City; UT; 84112; USA
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- Department of Biology; University of Utah; Salt Lake City; UT; 84112; USA
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Bailey VL, Fansler SJ, Stegen JC, McCue LA. Linking microbial community structure to β-glucosidic function in soil aggregates. ISME J 2013; 7:2044-53. [PMID: 23719152 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2013] [Revised: 03/07/2013] [Accepted: 04/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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To link microbial community 16S structure to a measured function in a natural soil, we have scaled both DNA and β-glucosidase assays down to a volume of soil that may approach a unique microbial community. β-Glucosidase activity was assayed in 450 individual aggregates, which were then sorted into classes of high or low activities, from which groups of 10 or 11 aggregates were identified and grouped for DNA extraction and pyrosequencing. Tandem assays of ATP were conducted for each aggregate in order to normalize these small groups of aggregates for biomass size. In spite of there being no significant differences in the richness or diversity of the microbial communities associated with high β-glucosidase activities compared with the communities associated with low β-glucosidase communities, several analyses of variance clearly show that the communities of these two groups differ. The separation of these groups is partially driven by the differential abundances of members of the Chitinophagaceae family. It may be observed that functional differences in otherwise similar soil aggregates can be largely attributed to differences in resource availability, rather than to the presence or absence of particular taxonomic groups.
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- Vanessa L Bailey
- Microbiology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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Moles AT, Peco B, Wallis IR, Foley WJ, Poore AGB, Seabloom EW, Vesk PA, Bisigato AJ, Cella-Pizarro L, Clark CJ, Cohen PS, Cornwell WK, Edwards W, Ejrnaes R, Gonzales-Ojeda T, Graae BJ, Hay G, Lumbwe FC, Magaña-Rodríguez B, Moore BD, Peri PL, Poulsen JR, Stegen JC, Veldtman R, von Zeipel H, Andrew NR, Boulter SL, Borer ET, Cornelissen JHC, Farji-Brener AG, DeGabriel JL, Jurado E, Kyhn LA, Low B, Mulder CPH, Reardon-Smith K, Rodríguez-Velázquez J, De Fortier A, Zheng Z, Blendinger PG, Enquist BJ, Facelli JM, Knight T, Majer JD, Martínez-Ramos M, McQuillan P, Hui FKC. Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat? New Phytol 2013; 198:252-263. [PMID: 23316750 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2012] [Accepted: 11/27/2012] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Most plant species have a range of traits that deter herbivores. However, understanding of how different defences are related to one another is surprisingly weak. Many authors argue that defence traits trade off against one another, while others argue that they form coordinated defence syndromes. We collected a dataset of unprecedented taxonomic and geographic scope (261 species spanning 80 families, from 75 sites across the globe) to investigate relationships among four chemical and six physical defences. Five of the 45 pairwise correlations between defence traits were significant and three of these were tradeoffs. The relationship between species' overall chemical and physical defence levels was marginally nonsignificant (P = 0.08), and remained nonsignificant after accounting for phylogeny, growth form and abundance. Neither categorical principal component analysis (PCA) nor hierarchical cluster analysis supported the idea that species displayed defence syndromes. Our results do not support arguments for tradeoffs or for coordinated defence syndromes. Rather, plants display a range of combinations of defence traits. We suggest this lack of consistent defence syndromes may be adaptive, resulting from selective pressure to deploy a different combination of defences to coexisting species.
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- Angela T Moles
- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group, Departamento Interuniversitario de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Darwin s/n, Cantoblanco, E-28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Centro Nacional Patagónico, CONICET, Blvd. Brown s/n, 9120, Puerto Madryn, Argentina
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- Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA, 02540, USA
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- Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-5020, USA
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Department of Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology and Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, 8420, Rønde, Denmark
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- Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Jr. San Mart í n 451, Madre de Dios, Peru
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- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Abisko Naturvetenskapliga Station, 98107, Abisko, Sweden
- Department of Biology, NTNU, 7491, Trondheim, Norway
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, PO Box 32379, Lusaka, 10101, Zambia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, INTA, CONICET, 9400, Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
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- Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA, 02540, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa
- Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X7, Claremont, 7735, South Africa
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Mid Sweden University, SE-851 70, Sundsvall, Sweden
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- Centre for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology, Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia
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- Environmental Futures Centre, Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Systems Ecology, Institute of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1087, NL-1081 HV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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- Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, University of Nuevo Leon, Linares, 67700, Mexico
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- National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK- 4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Low Ecological Services, PO Box 3130, Alice Springs, NT, 0871, Australia
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- Institute of Arctic Biology and Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA
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- Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, 58190, México
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- Department of Zoology, University of Zululand, Private Bag x1001, Kwadlangezwa, 3886, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
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- Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
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- CONICET and Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Yerba Buena, 4107, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, Box 1137, St Louis, MO, 63105, USA
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- Curtin Institute for Biodiversity and Climate, Curtin University, PO Box U1987, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, 58190, México
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- School of Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics and Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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