Dissolved organic matter (DOM) quality drives biogeographic patterns of soil bacterial communities and their association networks in semi-arid regions
| Autor: | Dalin Jiang, Jizhong Zhou, Mengjun Zhang, Muke Huang, Weiqian Jia, Liwei Chai, Yi Huang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine
China Bacteria Ecology Soil test Microorganism media_common.quotation_subject 030106 microbiology Climate change Plants Biology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology Arid Competition (biology) Humus Soil 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Dissolved organic carbon Desert Climate Transect media_common |
| Zdroj: | FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97 |
| ISSN: | 1574-6941 |
| Popis: | It is of great interest to elucidate the biogeographic patterns of soil microorganisms and their driving forces, which is fundamental to predicting alterations in microbial-mediated functions arising from environment changes. Although dissolved organic matter (DOM) represents an important resource for soil microorganisms, knowledge of how its quality affects microbial biogeography is limited. Here, we characterized soil bacterial communities and DOM quality in 45 soil samples collected from a 1500-km sampling transect through semi-arid regions in northern China which are currently suffering great pressure from climate change, using Illumina Miseq sequencing and fluorescence spectroscopy, respectively. We found that DOM quality (i.e. the source of DOM and the humification degree of DOM) had profound shaping influence on the biogeographic patterns exhibited by bacterial diversity, community composition and association networks. Specifically, the composition of bacteria community closely associated with DOM quality. Plant-derived DOM sustained higher bacterial diversity relative to microbial-derived DOM. Meanwhile, bacterial diversity linearly increased with increasing humification degree of DOM. Additionally, plant-derived DOM was observed to foster more complex bacterial association networks with less competition. Together, our work contributes to the factors underlying biogeographic patterns not only of bacterial diversity, community composition but also of their association networks and reports previously undocumented important role of DOM quality in shaping these patterns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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