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Shi Y, Li W, Guo X. Exploring environment-specific regulation: Characterizing bacterioplankton community dynamics in a typical lake of Inner Mongolia, China. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 253:119154. [PMID: 38754616 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119154] [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: 03/25/2024] [Revised: 05/12/2024] [Accepted: 05/14/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
Abstract
Lakes serve as heterogeneous ecosystems with rich microbiota. Although previous studies on bacterioplankton have advanced our understanding, there are gaps in our knowledge concerning variations in the taxonomic composition and community assembly processes of bacterioplankton across different environment conditions. This study explored the spatial dynamics, assembly processes, and co-occurrence relationships among bacterioplankton communities in 35 surface water samples collected from Hulun Lake (a grassland-type lake), Wuliangsuhai Lake (an irrigated agricultural recession type lake), and Daihai Lake (an inland lake with mixed farming and grazing) in the Inner Mongolia Plateau, China. The results indicated a significant geographical distance decay pattern, with biomarkers (Proteobacteria and Bacteroidota) exhibiting differences in the contributions of different bacteria branches to the lakes. The relative abundance of Proteobacteria (42.23%) were high in Hulun Lake and Wuliangsuhai Lake. Despite Actinobacteriota was most dominant, Firmicutes accounted for approximately 17.07% in Daihai Lake, suggested the potential detection of anthropogenic impacts on bacteria within the agro-pastoral inland lake. Lake heterogeneity caused bacterioplankton responses to phosphorus, chlorophyll a, and salinity in Hulun Lake, Wuliangsuhai Lake, and Daihai Lake. Although bacterioplankton community assembly processes in irrigated agricultural recession type lake were more affected by dispersal limitation than those in grassland-type lake and inland lake with mixed farming and grazing (approximately 52.7% in Hulun Lake), dispersal limitation and undominated processes were key modes of bacterioplankton community assembly in three lakes. This suggested stochastic processes exerted a greater impact on bacterioplankton community assembly in a typical Inner Mongolia Lake than deterministic processes. Overall, the bacterioplankton communities displayed the potential for collaboration, with lowest connectivity observed in irrigated agricultural recession type lake, which reflected the complex dynamic patterns of aquatic bacteria in typical Inner Mongolia Plateau lakes. These findings enhanced our understanding of the interspecific relationships and assembly processes among microorganisms in lakes with distinct habitats.
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- Yujiao Shi
- Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering College, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, 010018, China
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- Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering College, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, 010018, China; Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Protection and Utilization of Water Resources, Hohhot, 010018, China.
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- Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering College, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, 010018, China
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Liu Q, Duan X, Zhang Y, Duan L, Zhang X, Liu F, Li D, Zhang H. Rainfall seasonality shapes microbial assembly and niche characteristics in Yunnan Plateau lakes, China. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 257:119410. [PMID: 38871273 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2024] [Revised: 06/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024]
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Microorganisms are crucial components of freshwater ecosystems. Understanding the microbial community assembly processes and niche characteristics in freshwater ecosystems, which are poorly understood, is crucial for evaluating microbial ecological roles. The Yunnan Plateau lakes in China represent a freshwater ecosystem that is experiencing eutrophication due to anthropogenic activities. Here, variation in the assembly and niche characteristics of both prokaryotic and microeukaryotic communities was explored in Yunnan Plateau lakes across two seasons (dry season and rainy season) to determine the impacts of rainfall and environmental conditions on the microbial community and niche. The results showed that the environmental heterogeneity of the lakes decreased in the rainy season compared to the dry season. The microbial (bacterial and microeukaryotic) α-diversity significantly decreased during the rainy season. Deterministic processes were found to dominate microbial community assembly in both seasons. β-Diversity decomposition analysis revealed that microbial community compositional dissimilarities were dominated by species replacement processes. The co-occurrence networks indicated reduced species complexity for microbes and a destabilized network for prokaryotes prior to rainfall, while the opposite was found for microeukaryotes following rainfall. Microbial niche breadth decreased significantly in the rainy season. In addition, lower prokaryotic niche overlap, but greater microeukaryotic niche overlap, was observed after rainfall. Rainfall and environmental conditions significantly affected the microbial community assembly and niche characteristics. It can be concluded that rainfall and external pollutant input during the seasonal transition alter the lake environment, thereby regulating the microbial community and niche in these lakes. Our findings offer new insight into microbiota assembly and niche patterns in plateau lakes, further deepening the understanding of freshwater ecosystem functioning.
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- Qi Liu
- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China; Southwest United Graduate School, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.
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Sun Y, Ye F, Huang Q, Du F, Song T, Yuan H, Liu X, Yao D. Linking ecological niches to bacterial community structure and assembly in polluted urban aquatic ecosystems. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1288304. [PMID: 38163078 PMCID: PMC10754954 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1288304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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Introduction Bacterial communities play crucial roles in the functioning and resilience of aquatic ecosystems, and their responses to water pollution may be assessed from ecological niches. However, our understanding of such response patterns and the underlying ecological mechanisms remains limited. Methods In this study, we comprehensively investigated the effects of water pollution on the bacterial structure and assembly within different ecological niches, including water, sediment, submerged plant leaf surfaces, and leaf surfaces, using a 16S high-throughput sequencing approach. Results Ecological niches had a greater impact on bacterial community diversity than pollution, with a distinct enrichment of unique dominant phyla in different niches. This disparity in diversity extends to the bacterial responses to water pollution, with a general reduction in α-diversity observed in the niches, excluding leaf surfaces. Additionally, the distinct changes in bacterial composition in response to pollution should be correlated with their predicted functions, given the enrichment of functions related to biogeochemical cycling in plant surface niches. Moreover, our study revealed diverse interaction patterns among bacterial communities in different niches, characterized by relatively simply associations in sediments and intricate or interconnected networks in water and plant surfaces. Furthermore, stochastic processes dominated bacterial community assembly in the water column, whereas selective screening of roots and pollution events increased the impact of deterministic processes. Discussion Overall, our study emphasizes the importance of ecological niches in shaping bacterial responses to water pollution. These findings improve our understanding of the complicated microbial response patterns to water pollution and have ecological implications for aquatic ecosystem health.
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- Yuming Sun
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Geological Bureau, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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Li Z, Sun L, Liu S, Lei P, Wang R, Li S, Gu Y. Interkingdom network analyses reveal microalgae and protostomes as keystone taxa involved in nutrient cycling in large freshwater lake sediment. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2023; 99:fiad111. [PMID: 37715306 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023] Open
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Few studies have explored the role of interkingdom interactions between bacteria and microeukaryotes in nutrient cycling in lake ecosystems. We conducted sediment sampling from 40 locations covering Hongze Lake and analyzed their chemical properties. Intra- and interkingdom networks were constructed using 16S and 18S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Microeukaryotic intranetworks were more complex in spring than in autumn, while no clear variation in the complexity of bacterial intranetworks was found between autumn and spring. Larger and more complex bacterial-microeukaryotic bipartite networks emerged in spring than in autumn, correlated with lower carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus levels in spring, likely resulting in intense microbial competition. Bacteria and microeukaryotes played different topological roles in interkingdom networks, with microeukaryotes contributing to the networks' greater complexity. Seven keystone modules were identified in spring and autumn nutrient cycling. Importantly, keystone taxa in these modules belonged to photoautotrophic microalgae or predatory protostomes, indicating that these organisms are key drivers in lake sediment nutrient cycling. Our results suggested that nutrient content variation in autumn and spring changes interkingdom networks' topological structure between bacteria and microeukaryotes. Microalgae and protostomes are essential in freshwater lake nutrient cycling and may be targeted to modulate nutrient cycling in large freshwater ecosystems.
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- Zhidan Li
- College of Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, P.R. China
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- College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, P.R. China
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- College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, P.R. China
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- College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, P.R. China
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- College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, P.R. China
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- College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, P.R. China
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- College of Food Science and Light Industry, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, P.R. China
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