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Aanderud ZT, Saurey S, Ball BA, Wall DH, Barrett JE, Muscarella ME, Griffin NA, Virginia RA, Barberán A, Adams BJ. Corrigendum: Stoichiometric Shifts in Soil C:N:P Promote Bacterial Taxa Dominance, Maintain Biodiversity, and Deconstruct Community Assemblages. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:391. [PMID: 30930859 PMCID: PMC6423447 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Zachary T Aanderud
- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
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- School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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- Department of Biology, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
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- Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
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- Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, and Monte L. Bean Museum, Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
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Aanderud ZT, Saurey S, Ball BA, Wall DH, Barrett JE, Muscarella ME, Griffin NA, Virginia RA, Barberán A, Adams BJ. Stoichiometric Shifts in Soil C:N:P Promote Bacterial Taxa Dominance, Maintain Biodiversity, and Deconstruct Community Assemblages. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1401. [PMID: 30018601 PMCID: PMC6037766 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2018] [Accepted: 06/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Imbalances in C:N:P supply ratios may cause bacterial resource limitations and constrain biogeochemical processes, but the importance of shifts in soil stoichiometry are complicated by the nearly limitless interactions between an immensely rich species pool and a multiple chemical resource forms. To more clearly identify the impact of soil C:N:P on bacteria, we evaluated the cumulative effects of single and coupled long-term nutrient additions (i.e., C as mannitol, N as equal concentrations NH4+ and NO3-, and P as Na3PO4) and water on communities in an Antarctic polar desert, Taylor Valley. Untreated soils possessed relatively low bacterial diversity, simplified organic C sources due to the absence of plants, limited inorganic N, and excess soil P potentially attenuating links between C:N:P. After 6 years of adding resources, an alleviation of C and N colimitation allowed one rare Micrococcaceae, an Arthrobacter species, to dominate, comprising 47% of the total community abundance and elevating soil respiration by 136% relative to untreated soils. The addition of N alone reduced C:N ratios, elevated bacterial richness and diversity, and allowed rare taxa relying on ammonium and nitrite for metabolism to become more abundant [e.g., nitrite oxidizing Nitrospira species (Nitrosomonadaceae), denitrifiers utilizing nitrite (Gemmatimonadaceae) and members of Rhodobacteraceae with a high affinity for ammonium]. Based on community co-occurrence networks, lower C:P ratios in soils following P and CP additions created more diffuse and less connected communities by disrupting 73% of species interactions and selecting for taxa potentially exploiting abundant P. Unlike amended nutrients, water additions alone elicited no lasting impact on communities. Our results suggest that as soils become nutrient rich a wide array of outcomes are possible from species dominance and the deconstruction of species interconnectedness to the maintenance of biodiversity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zachary T. Aanderud
- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
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- School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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- Department of Biology, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
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- Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
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- Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, and Monte L. Bean Museum, Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
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Walworth NG, Fu FX, Lee MD, Cai X, Saito MA, Webb EA, Hutchins DA. Nutrient-Colimited Trichodesmium as a Nitrogen Source or Sink in a Future Ocean. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:e02137-17. [PMID: 29180365 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02137-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2017] [Accepted: 11/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Nitrogen-fixing (N2) cyanobacteria provide bioavailable nitrogen to vast ocean regions but are in turn limited by iron (Fe) and/or phosphorus (P), which may force them to employ alternative nitrogen acquisition strategies. The adaptive responses of nitrogen fixers to global-change drivers under nutrient-limited conditions could profoundly alter the current ocean nitrogen and carbon cycles. Here, we show that the globally important N2 fixer Trichodesmium fundamentally shifts nitrogen metabolism toward organic-nitrogen scavenging following long-term high-CO2 adaptation under iron and/or phosphorus (co)limitation. Global shifts in transcripts and proteins under high-CO2/Fe-limited and/or P-limited conditions include decreases in the N2-fixing nitrogenase enzyme, coupled with major increases in enzymes that oxidize trimethylamine (TMA). TMA is an abundant, biogeochemically important organic nitrogen compound that supports rapid Trichodesmium growth while inhibiting N2 fixation. In a future high-CO2 ocean, this whole-cell energetic reallocation toward organic nitrogen scavenging and away from N2 fixation may reduce new-nitrogen inputs by Trichodesmium while simultaneously depleting the scarce fixed-nitrogen supplies of nitrogen-limited open-ocean ecosystems.IMPORTANCE Trichodesmium is among the most biogeochemically significant microorganisms in the ocean, since it supplies up to 50% of the new nitrogen supporting open-ocean food webs. We used Trichodesmium cultures adapted to high-CO2 conditions for 7 years, followed by additional exposure to iron and/or phosphorus (co)limitation. We show that "future ocean" conditions of high CO2 and concurrent nutrient limitation(s) fundamentally shift nitrogen metabolism away from nitrogen fixation and instead toward upregulation of organic nitrogen-scavenging pathways. We show that the responses of Trichodesmium to projected future ocean conditions include decreases in the nitrogen-fixing nitrogenase enzymes coupled with major increases in enzymes that oxidize the abundant organic nitrogen source trimethylamine (TMA). Such a shift toward organic nitrogen uptake and away from nitrogen fixation may substantially reduce new-nitrogen inputs by Trichodesmium to the rest of the microbial community in the future high-CO2 ocean, with potential global implications for ocean carbon and nitrogen cycling.
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