Environmental heterogeneity caused by large-scale cultivation of Pyropia haitanensis shapes multi-group biodiversity distribution in coastal areas

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The response of marine biodiversity to mariculture has long been a research focus in marine ecology. However, the effects of seaweed cultivation on biological community assembly are poorly understood, especially in diverse communities with distinct ecological characteristics. In this study, we used environmental DNA metabarcoding to investigate the spatial distribution patterns of bacterial, protistan, and metazoan diversity, aiming to reveal the mechanisms of community assembly in the Pyropia haitanensis cultivation zone along the Fujian coast, China. We found that, compared with the biological communities in control zones, those in P. haitanensis cultivation zones exhibited stronger geographic distance-decay patterns and displayed more complex and stable network structures. Deterministic processes (environmental selection) played a more important role in the assembly of bacterial, protistan, and metazoan communities in P. haitanensis cultivation zones, especially metazoan communities. Variance partitioning analysis showed that environmental variables made greater contributions to the diversity of the three types of communities within the P. haitanensis cultivation zones than in the control zones. Partial least squares path modeling analysis identified nitrate‑nitrogen (NO3-N), pH, particulate organic carbon (POC), and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) as the key environmental variables affecting biodiversity. Overall, the environmental heterogeneity caused by the large-scale cultivation of P. haitanensis could be the crucial factor influencing the composition and structure of various biological communities. Our results highlight the importance of the responses of multi-group organisms to the cultivation of seaweed, and provide insights into the coexistence patterns of biodiversity at the spatial scale.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:931

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The Science of the total environment - 931(2024) vom: 23. Apr., Seite 172692

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Zongtang [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Muhan [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Dehua [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Wenlei [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Chaotian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Community assembly
Distance-decay of community similarity
Environmental DNA metabarcoding
Environmental heterogeneity
Journal Article
Pyropia haitanensis

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Date Revised 07.05.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172692

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NLM371524784