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Diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources
Soil food webs are important drivers for key ecological functions in terrestrial systems such as carbon and nutrient cycling. However, soil food web models generally lack quantitative data, mainly due to the shortage in high-throughput methods to describe energy flows. In marine environments, multiv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31430306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221102 |
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author | Kühn, Jakob Schweitzer, Kathlin Ruess, Liliane |
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description | Soil food webs are important drivers for key ecological functions in terrestrial systems such as carbon and nutrient cycling. However, soil food web models generally lack quantitative data, mainly due to the shortage in high-throughput methods to describe energy flows. In marine environments, multivariate optimization models (Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis) and Bayesian approaches (source-tracking algorithm) were established to predict the proportion of predator diets using lipids as tracers. A premise for the application of such models to soil systems is to acquire the fatty acid pattern of a broad range of resources and to reveal potential overlap in their signatures. We present a comprehensive comparison of lipid pattern across widespread taxa of plants (leaves and roots, n = 48), algae (n = 59), fungi (n = 60), and bacteria (n = 62) as basal food web resources. Lipid profiles from microorganisms and algae were assessed from laboratory cultures, whereas plant tissue was derived from an arable field. A lipid library was constructed and multivariate data analyses (hierarchical clustering, nMDS) was used to assess the extent of separation in lipid pattern by species or resource type. The performance of the lipid library was tested by leave-one-prey-out (LOPO) analysis, giving the distinctiveness of the resource (prey) groups. Fungi and plant leaves were correctly assigned based on their lipid pattern with more than 98%, while plant roots and bacteria achieved 88 and 85%, respectively. However, algae were only correctly classified by 60%, pointing to a bias in the herbivore food chain. Fatty acids most important for separation of algae and plant leaves were of the omega 3 type, i.e. 16:3ω3 and 18:3ω3. In plant roots 18:1ω9 was most important, whereas bacteria were distinguished predominantly by methyl-branched fatty acids. Overall, the lipid pattern of major soil food web resources are sufficiently differentiated to allow for qualitative (biomarker) analyses as well as quantitative modelling, yet with precaution in the case of algae. |
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spelling | pubmed-67018272019-09-04 Diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources Kühn, Jakob Schweitzer, Kathlin Ruess, Liliane PLoS One Research Article Soil food webs are important drivers for key ecological functions in terrestrial systems such as carbon and nutrient cycling. However, soil food web models generally lack quantitative data, mainly due to the shortage in high-throughput methods to describe energy flows. In marine environments, multivariate optimization models (Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis) and Bayesian approaches (source-tracking algorithm) were established to predict the proportion of predator diets using lipids as tracers. A premise for the application of such models to soil systems is to acquire the fatty acid pattern of a broad range of resources and to reveal potential overlap in their signatures. We present a comprehensive comparison of lipid pattern across widespread taxa of plants (leaves and roots, n = 48), algae (n = 59), fungi (n = 60), and bacteria (n = 62) as basal food web resources. Lipid profiles from microorganisms and algae were assessed from laboratory cultures, whereas plant tissue was derived from an arable field. A lipid library was constructed and multivariate data analyses (hierarchical clustering, nMDS) was used to assess the extent of separation in lipid pattern by species or resource type. The performance of the lipid library was tested by leave-one-prey-out (LOPO) analysis, giving the distinctiveness of the resource (prey) groups. Fungi and plant leaves were correctly assigned based on their lipid pattern with more than 98%, while plant roots and bacteria achieved 88 and 85%, respectively. However, algae were only correctly classified by 60%, pointing to a bias in the herbivore food chain. Fatty acids most important for separation of algae and plant leaves were of the omega 3 type, i.e. 16:3ω3 and 18:3ω3. In plant roots 18:1ω9 was most important, whereas bacteria were distinguished predominantly by methyl-branched fatty acids. Overall, the lipid pattern of major soil food web resources are sufficiently differentiated to allow for qualitative (biomarker) analyses as well as quantitative modelling, yet with precaution in the case of algae. Public Library of Science 2019-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6701827/ /pubmed/31430306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221102 Text en © 2019 Kühn et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kühn, Jakob Schweitzer, Kathlin Ruess, Liliane Diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources |
title | Diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources |
title_full | Diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources |
title_fullStr | Diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources |
title_full_unstemmed | Diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources |
title_short | Diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources |
title_sort | diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31430306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221102 |
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