Urban and agricultural land use led to niche differentiation of AOA, AOB and comammox along the Beiyun River continuum

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River ecological health has been severely threatened by anthropogenic land-use pressures. Here, by combining remote sensing and molecular biology methods, we evaluated the impact of land-use activities on nitrification, a fundamental ecological process in rivers, which is conducted by ammonia-oxidising archaea (AOA) and ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB), or the newly discovered complete ammonia oxidisers (comammox). We explored the relationships of the abundance, activity, and diversity of AOA, AOB, and comammox in river sediments with land-use pressure by proposing a quantitative land use pattern index (LPI) over a 184 km continuum along the Beiyun River in North China. We found that comammox dominated nitrification in the forestry upstream (67.07 % in summer, 56.40 % in winter), while AOB became the major player in the urban middle (56.51 % in summer, 53.08 % in winter) and agricultural downstream reaches (62.98 % in summer, 50.74 % in winter). In addition, urban and agricultural land use lowered the α diversity of AOA and comammox, as well as simplified their co-occurrence networks, but promoted AOB diversity and complicated their networks. The structural equation model illustrated that the key drivers affecting the key taxa and activities were ammonia, and C/N for AOB, and total organic matter, and pH for comammox. We thus conclude that watershed urban and agricultural land use drive the niche differentiation of AOA, AOB, and comammox, specifically leading to a robust AOB community but weakened AOA and comammox communities. Our study connects the macro and micro worlds and provides a new paradigm for studying the variation in microbial communities as well as the potential ecological consequences under the increased anthropogenic land-use pressures in the Anthropocene.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:255

Enthalten in:

Water research - 255(2024) vom: 15. Apr., Seite 121480

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tan, Qiuyang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Haoming [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xue [VerfasserIn]
Xing, Yuzi [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yaoxin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Agriculture
Comammox
Journal Article
Land use
Niche differentiation
Nitrifiers
Urban

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Date Revised 22.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status In-Process

doi:

10.1016/j.watres.2024.121480

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370079825