Positive diversity-functioning relationships in model communities of methanotrophic bacteria
| Autor: | Elvira Schnyder, Ruth Henneberger, Martin Hartmann, Pascal A. Niklaus, Paul L. E. Bodelier |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Niklaus, Pascal A, Microbial Ecology (ME) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Nutrient cycle UFSP13-8 Global Change and Biodiversity Evolution Niche Biodiversity Biology 10127 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies 03 medical and health sciences Behavior and Systematics Ecosystem 14. Life underwater Phylogeny Soil Microbiology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 2. Zero hunger Biomass (ecology) Bacteria Ecology 15. Life on land 1105 Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 030104 developmental biology 13. Climate action international Anaerobic oxidation of methane 570 Life sciences biology 590 Animals (Zoology) Species richness Microcosm Methane |
| Zdroj: | Ecology, 99(3), 714-723. John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| ISSN: | 0012-9658 |
| Popis: | Biodiversity enhances ecosystem functions such as biomass production and nutrient cycling. Although the majority of the terrestrial biodiversity is hidden in soils, very little is known about the importance of the diversity of microbial communities for soil functioning. Here, we tested effects of biodiversity on the functioning of methanotrophs, a specialized group of soil bacteria that plays a key role in mediating greenhouse gas emissions from soils. Using pure strains of methanotrophic bacteria, we assembled artificial communities of different diversity levels, with which we inoculated sterile soil microcosms. To assess the functioning of these communities, we measured methane oxidation by gas chromatography throughout the experiment and determined changes in community composition and community size at several time points by quantitative PCR and sequencing. We demonstrate that microbial diversity had a positive overyielding effect on methane oxidation, in particular at the beginning of the experiment. This higher assimilation of CH4 at high diversity translated into increased growth and significantly larger communities towards the end of the study. The overyielding of mixtures with respect to CH4 consumption and community size were positively correlated. The temporal CH4 consumption profiles of strain monocultures differed, raising the possibility that temporal complementarity of component strains drove the observed community-level strain richness effects; however, the community niche metric we derived from the temporal activity profiles did not explain the observed strain richness effect. The strain richness effect also was unrelated to both the phylogenetic and functional trait diversity of mixed communities. Overall, our results suggest that positive biodiversity-ecosystem-function relationships show similar patterns across different scales and may be widespread in nature. Additionally, biodiversity is probably also important in natural methanotrophic communities for the ecosystem function methane oxidation. Therefore, maintaining soil conditions that support a high diversity of methanotrophs may help to reduce the emission of the greenhouse gas methane. |
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