Spatiotemporal dynamics, community assembly and functional potential of sedimentary archaea in reservoirs : coaction of stochasticity and nutrient load

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Archaea participate in biogeochemical cycles in aquatic ecosystems, and deciphering their community dynamics and assembly mechanisms is key to understanding their ecological functions. Here, sediments from 12 selected reservoirs from the Wujiang and Pearl River basins in southwest China were investigated using 16S rRNA Illumina sequencing and quantitative PCR for archaeal abundance and richness in all seasons. Generally, archaeal abundance and α-diversity were significantly correlated with temperature; however, β-diversity analysis showed that community structures varied greatly among locations rather than seasons, indicating a distance-decay pattern with geographical variation. The null model revealed the major contribution of stochasticity to archaeal community assembly, which was further confirmed by the neutral community model that could explain 71.7% and 90.2% of the variance in archaeal assembly in the Wujiang and Pearl River basins, respectively. Moreover, sediment total nitrogen and organic carbon levels were significantly correlated with archaeal abundance and α-diversity. Interestingly, these nutrient levels were positively and negatively correlated, respectively, with the abundance of methanogenic and ammonia-oxidized archaea: the dominant sedimentary archaea in these reservoirs. Taken together, this work systematically characterized archaeal community profiles in reservoir sediments and demonstrated the combined action of stochastic processes and nutrient load in shaping archaeal communities in reservoir ecosystems.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:98

Enthalten in:

FEMS microbiology ecology - 98(2022), 11 vom: 02. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yue, Yihong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Fushun [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xue-Ping [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Zhihong [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Li, Meng [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Ming [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ammonia oxidation
Community assembly
DNA, Archaeal
Journal Article
Methanogens
Microbial diversity
Neutral community model
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Reservoir sediment

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Date Completed 04.11.2022

Date Revised 19.01.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/femsec/fiac109

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346284899