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Cao F, Shu W, Liu Q, Wan J, Jiang Z, Liu M, Jiang Y. Distinct structure, assembly, and gene expression of microplankton in two Arctic estuaries with varied terrestrial inputs. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 256:119207. [PMID: 38782345 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2024] [Revised: 05/05/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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The Laptev Sea is a major Marginal Sea in the Western Arctic Ocean. The Arctic amplification brought by global warming influences the hydrological properties of rivers passing through the permafrost zone, which would alter the biological community structure at continental margin. In this study, the structure, assembly, and gene expression of planktonic microbial communities in two estuaries (Protoka Ularovskaya River Estuary, PURE; Lena River Estuary, LRE) of Laptev Sea were examined to investigate the environmental effects of polar rivers. PURE and LRE exhibited distinct environmental characteristics: low temperature and high salinity for PURE, and high temperature and low salinity for LRE, influenced by runoff size. Salinity more closely influenced microbial communities in LRE, with freshwater species playing a significant role in community composition. The findings revealed differences between two estuaries in community composition and diversity. Prokaryotes and microeukaryotes had shown different assembly patterns in response to habitat changes caused by terrestrial freshwater input. Furthermore, compared with the PURE, the co-occurrence and inter-domain network of the LRE, which was more affected by terrestrial input, was more complex and stable. Functional gene prediction revealed a higher gene expression of methane metabolism in LRE than in PURE, particularly those related to methane oxidation, and this conclusion could help better explore the impact of global warming on the methane cycle in the Arctic Marginal Seas. This study explored the increased freshwater runoffs under the background of global warming dramatically affect Arctic microplankton communities from community structure, assembly and gene expression aspects.
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- Furong Cao
- MoE Key Laboratory of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China; College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- MoE Key Laboratory of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- MoE Key Laboratory of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China; College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China.
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- MoE Key Laboratory of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China; College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China; Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
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Tveit AT, Kiss A, Winkel M, Horn F, Hájek T, Svenning MM, Wagner D, Liebner S. Environmental patterns of brown moss- and Sphagnum-associated microbial communities. Sci Rep 2020; 10:22412. [PMID: 33376244 PMCID: PMC7772339 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79773-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Northern peatlands typically develop through succession from fens dominated by the moss family Amblystegiaceae to bogs dominated by the moss genus Sphagnum. How the different plants and abiotic environmental conditions provided in Amblystegiaceae and Sphagnum peat shape the respective moss associated microbial communities is unknown. Through a large-scale molecular and biogeochemical study spanning Arctic, sub-Arctic and temperate regions we assessed how the endo- and epiphytic microbial communities of natural northern peatland mosses relate to peatland type (Sphagnum and Amblystegiaceae), location, moss taxa and abiotic environmental variables. Microbial diversity and community structure were distinctly different between Amblystegiaceae and Sphagnum peatlands, and within each of these two peatland types moss taxon explained the largest part of microbial community variation. Sphagnum and Amblystegiaceae shared few (< 1% of all operational taxonomic units (OTUs)) but strikingly abundant (up to 65% of relative abundance) OTUs. This core community overlapped by one third with the Sphagnum-specific core-community. Thus, the most abundant microorganisms in Sphagnum that are also found in all the Sphagnum plants studied, are the same OTUs as those few shared with Amblystegiaceae. Finally, we could confirm that these highly abundant OTUs were endophytes in Sphagnum, but epiphytes on Amblystegiaceae. We conclude that moss taxa and abiotic environmental variables associate with particular microbial communities. While moss taxon was the most influential parameter, hydrology, pH and temperature also had significant effects on the microbial communities. A small though highly abundant core community is shared between Sphagnum and Amblystegiaceae.
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- Alexander Tøsdal Tveit
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Tromsø, Norway
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- GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Section Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Section Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Section Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Tromsø, Norway
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- GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Section Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
- University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
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- GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Section Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany.
- University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam, Germany.
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Bacterial and archaeal community structure in benthic sediments from glacial lakes at the Múlajökull Glacier, central Iceland. Polar Biol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-020-02770-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Le Moigne A, Bartosiewicz M, Schaepman-Strub G, Abiven S, Pernthaler J. The biogeochemical variability of Arctic thermokarst ponds is reflected by stochastic and niche-driven microbial community assembly processes. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:4847-4862. [PMID: 32996246 PMCID: PMC7702111 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Revised: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 09/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Shallow thermokarst ponds are a conspicuous landscape element of the Arctic Siberian tundra with high biogeochemical variability. Little is known about how microbes from the regional species pool assemble into local pond communities and how the resulting patterns affect functional properties such as dissolved organic carbon (DOC) remineralization and greenhouse gas (GHG) turnover. We analysed the pelagic microbiomes of 20 ponds in north‐eastern Siberia in the context of their physico‐chemical properties. Ponds were categorized as polygonal or trough according to their geomorphological origin. The diversity of bacteria and eukaryotic microbes was assessed by ribosomal gene tag sequencing. Null model analysis revealed an important role of stochastic assembly processes within ponds of identical origin, in particular for genotypes only occurring in few systems. Nevertheless, the two pond types clearly represented distinct niches for both the bacterial and eukaryotic microbial communities. Carbon dioxide concentration, indicative of heterotrophic microbial processes, varied greatly, especially in the trough ponds. Methane concentrations were lower in polygonal ponds and were correlated with the estimated abundance of methanotrophs. Thus, the overall functional variability of Arctic ponds reflects the stochastic assembly of their microbial communities. Distinct functional subcommunities can, nevertheless, be related to GHG concentrations.
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- Alizée Le Moigne
- Limnological Station, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.,URPP Global Change and Biodiversity, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- URPP Global Change and Biodiversity, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.,Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.,Laboratoire de Géologie, UMR 8538 Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research University, Paris, France.,Centre de Recherche en Ecologie Expérimentale et Prédictive (CEREEP-Ecotron IledeFrance), Département de Biologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Limnological Station, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.,URPP Global Change and Biodiversity, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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In 't Zandt MH, Liebner S, Welte CU. Roles of Thermokarst Lakes in a Warming World. Trends Microbiol 2020; 28:769-779. [PMID: 32362540 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2020.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Revised: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Permafrost covers a quarter of the northern hemisphere land surface and contains twice the amount of carbon that is currently present in the atmosphere. Future climate change is expected to reduce its near-surface cover by over 90% by the end of the 21st century, leading to thermokarst lake formation. Thermokarst lakes are point sources of carbon dioxide and methane which release long-term carbon stocks into the atmosphere, thereby initiating a positive climate feedback potentially contributing up to a 0.39°C rise of surface air temperatures by 2300. This review describes the potential role of thermokarst lakes in a warming world and the microbial mechanisms that underlie their contributions to the global greenhouse gas budget.
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- Michiel H In 't Zandt
- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Netherlands Earth System Science Center, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 3.7 Geomicrobiology, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany; University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Soehngen Institute of Anaerobic Microbiology, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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Kallistova AY, Savvichev AS, Rusanov II, Pimenov NV. Thermokarst Lakes, Ecosystems with Intense Microbial Processes of the Methane Cycle. Microbiology (Reading) 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026261719060043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Zakharenko AS, Galachyants YP, Morozov IV, Shubenkova OV, Morozov AA, Ivanov VG, Pimenov NV, Krasnopeev AY, Zemskaya TI. Bacterial Communities in Areas of Oil and Methane Seeps in Pelagic of Lake Baikal. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2019; 78:269-285. [PMID: 30483839 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-018-1299-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 11/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We have assessed the diversity of bacteria near oil-methane (area I) and methane (area II) seeps in the pelagic zone of Lake Baikal using massive parallel sequencing of 16S rRNA, pmoA, and mxaF gene fragments amplified from total DNA. At depths from the surface to 100 m, sequences belonging to Cyanobacteria dominated. In the communities to a depth of 200 m of the studied areas, Proteobacteria dominated the deeper layers of the water column. Alphaproteobacteria sequences were predominant in the community near the oil-methane seep, while the community near the methane seep was characterized by the prevalence of Alpha- and Gammaproteobacteria. Among representatives of these classes, type I methanotrophs prevailed in the 16S rRNA gene libraries from the near-bottom area, and type II methanotrophs were detected in minor quantities at different depths. In the analysis of the libraries of the pmoA and mxaF functional genes, we observed the different taxonomic composition of methanotrophic bacteria in the surface and deep layers of the water column. All pmoA sequences from area I were type II methanotrophs and were detected at a depth of 300 m, while sequences of type I methanotrophs were the most abundant in deep layers of the water column of area II. All mxaF gene sequences belonged to Methylobacterium representatives. Based on comparative analyses of 16S rRNA, pmoA, and mxaF gene fragment libraries, we suggest that there must be a wider spectrum of functional genes facilitating methane oxidation that were not detected with the primers used.
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- Aleksandra S Zakharenko
- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute, Ulan-Batorskaya Street 3, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia.
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- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute, Ulan-Batorskaya Street 3, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute, Ulan-Batorskaya Street 3, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute, Ulan-Batorskaya Street 3, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute, Ulan-Batorskaya Street 3, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
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- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute, Ulan-Batorskaya Street 3, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute, Ulan-Batorskaya Street 3, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia
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Masyagina OV, Evgrafova SY, Bugaenko TN, Kholodilova VV, Krivobokov LV, Korets MA, Wagner D. Permafrost landslides promote soil CO 2 emission and hinder C accumulation. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 657:351-364. [PMID: 30550900 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 11/29/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Landslides are common in high-latitude forest ecosystems that have developed on permafrost. The most vulnerable areas in the permafrost territories of Siberia occur on the south-facing slopes of northern rivers, where they are observed on about 20% of the total area of river slopes. Landslide disturbances will likely increase with climate change especially due to increasing summer-autumn precipitation. These processes are the most destructive natural disturbance agent and lead to the complete removal of pre-slide forest ecosystems (vegetation cover and soil). To evaluate postsliding ecosystem succession, we undertook integrated ecological research at landslides of different age classes along the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River and the Kochechum River (Tura, Krasnoyarsk region, Russia). Just after the event (at the one-year-old site), we registered a drop in soil respiration, a threefold lower microbial respiration rate, and a fourfold smaller mineral soil carbon and nitrogen stock at bare soil (melkozem) plots at the middle location of the site as compared with the non-affected control site. The recovery of disturbed areas began with the re-establishment of plant cover and the following accumulation of an organic soil layer. During the 35-year succession (L1972), the accumulated layer (O-layer) at the oldest site contained similar C- and N stocks to those found at the control sites. However, the mineral soil C- and N stocks and the microbial biomass - even of the oldest landslide area - did not reach the value of these parameters in control plots. Later, the soil respiration level and the eco-physiological status of soil microbiota also recovered due to these changes. This study demonstrates that the recovery after landslides in permafrost forests takes several decades. In addition, the degradation of permafrost due to landslides clearly hinders the accumulation of soil organic matter in the mineral soil.
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- O V Masyagina
- Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Federal Research Center «Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS», 50/28 Akademgorodok, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
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- Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Federal Research Center «Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS», 50/28 Akademgorodok, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny pr., 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
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- Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Federal Research Center «Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS», 50/28 Akademgorodok, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
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- Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Federal Research Center «Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS», 50/28 Akademgorodok, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny pr., 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
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- Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Federal Research Center «Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS», 50/28 Akademgorodok, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
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- Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Federal Research Center «Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS», 50/28 Akademgorodok, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny pr., 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Geomicrobiology, Telegrafenberg C-425, 14473 Potsdam, Germany; Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Samad MS, Bertilsson S. Seasonal Variation in Abundance and Diversity of Bacterial Methanotrophs in Five Temperate Lakes. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:142. [PMID: 28217121 PMCID: PMC5289968 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 01/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Lakes are significant sources of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere. Within these systems, methanotrophs consume CH4 and act as a potential biofilter mitigating the emission of this potent greenhouse gas. However, it is still not well understood how spatial and temporal variation in environmental parameters influence the abundance, diversity, and community structure of methanotrophs in lakes. To address this gap in knowledge, we collected water samples from three depths (surface, middle, and bottom) representing oxic to suboxic or anoxic zones of five different Swedish lakes in winter (ice-covered) and summer. Methanotroph abundance was determined by quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction and a comparison to environmental variables showed that temperature, season as well as depth, phosphate concentration, dissolved oxygen, and CH4 explained the observed variation in methanotroph abundance. Due to minimal differences in methane concentrations (0.19 and 0.29 μM for summer and winter, respectively), only a weak and even negative correlation was observed between CH4 and methanotrophs, which was possibly due to usage of CH4. Methanotrophs were present at concentrations ranging from 105 to 106 copies/l throughout the oxic (surface) and suboxic/anoxic (bottom) water mass of the lakes, but always contributed less than 1.3% to the total microbial community. Relative methanotroph abundance was significantly higher in winter than in summer and consistently increased with depth in the lakes. Phylogenetic analysis of pmoA genes in two clone libraries from two of the ice-covered lakes (Ekoln and Ramsen) separated the methanotrophs into five distinct clusters of Methylobacter sp. (Type I). Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the pmoA gene further revealed significant differences in methanotrophic communities between lakes as well as between winter and summer while there were no significant differences between water layers. The study provides new insights into diversity, abundance, community composition and spatial as well as temporal distribution of freshwater methanotrophs in low-methane dimictic lakes.
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- Md Sainur Samad
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Limnology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala UniversityUppsala, Sweden; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of OtagoDunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Limnology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden
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Elster J, Margesin R, Wagner D, Häggblom M. Editorial: Polar and Alpine Microbiology—Earth's cryobiosphere. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2016; 93:fiw221. [DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiw221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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