Environmental connectivity controls diversity in soil microbial communities
| Autor: | Noushin Hadadi, Jan Roelof van der Meer, Serge Pelet, David R. Johnson, Manupriyam Dubey, Nicolas Carraro |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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QH301-705.5
Microbial diversity Medicine (miscellaneous) Microbial communities Biology Bacterial Physiological Phenomena General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Liquid suspension Community ecology Biology (General) Soil Microbiology 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences Habitat fragmentation Bacteria Ecology Microbiota Interspecific competition Community composition General Agricultural and Biological Sciences human activities 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | Communications biology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 492 Communications Biology Communications Biology, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2021) |
| Popis: | Interspecific interactions are thought to govern the stability and functioning of microbial communities, but the influence of the spatial environment and its structural connectivity on the potential of such interactions to unfold remain largely unknown. Here we studied the effects on community growth and microbial diversity as a function of environmental connectivity, where we define environmental connectivity as the degree of habitat fragmentation preventing microbial cells from living together. We quantitatively compared growth of a naturally-derived high microbial diversity community from soil in a completely mixed liquid suspension (high connectivity) to growth in a massively fragmented and poorly connected environment (low connectivity). The low connectivity environment consisted of homogenously-sized miniature agarose beads containing random single or paired founder cells. We found that overall community growth was the same in both environments, but the low connectivity environment dramatically reduced global community-level diversity compared to the high connectivity environment. Experimental observations were supported by community growth modeling. The model predicts a loss of diversity in the low connectivity environment as a result of negative interspecific interactions becoming more dominant at small founder species numbers. Counterintuitively for the low connectivity environment, growth of isolated single genotypes was less productive than that of random founder genotype cell pairs, suggesting that the community as a whole profited from emerging positive interspecific interactions. Our work demonstrates the importance of environmental connectivity for growth of natural soil microbial communities, which aids future efforts to intervene in or restore community composition to achieve engineering and biotechnological objectives. Manupriyam Dubey et al. use experimental systems with naturally derived soil microbiomes in liquid suspensions and encapsulated beads to compare community dynamics in well-connected and poorly connected environments. While their results show that microbial growth does not vary between conditions, they report that low connectivity led to reduced microbial diversity and suggest that these reductions in microbial diversity may be due to increased negative interspecific interactions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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