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Aquatic Bacterial Diversity, Community Composition and Assembly in the Semi-Arid Inner Mongolia Plateau: Combined Effects of Salinity and Nutrient Levels

Due to the recent decades of climate change and intensive human activities, endorheic lakes are threatened by both salinization and eutrophication. However, knowledge of the aquatic bacterial community’s response to simultaneous increasing salinity and trophic status is still poor. To address this k...

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Autores principales: Tang, Xiangming, Xie, Guijuan, Shao, Keqiang, Tian, Wei, Gao, Guang, Qin, Boqiang
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7909399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33498349
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020208
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author Tang, Xiangming
Xie, Guijuan
Shao, Keqiang
Tian, Wei
Gao, Guang
Qin, Boqiang
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Xie, Guijuan
Shao, Keqiang
Tian, Wei
Gao, Guang
Qin, Boqiang
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description Due to the recent decades of climate change and intensive human activities, endorheic lakes are threatened by both salinization and eutrophication. However, knowledge of the aquatic bacterial community’s response to simultaneous increasing salinity and trophic status is still poor. To address this knowledge gap, we collected 40 surface water samples from five lakes and six rivers on the semi-arid Inner Mongolia Plateau, and investigated their bacterial communities using 16S rRNA gene-targeted amplicon sequencing. We found that bacterial species diversity significantly decreased from the mesotrophic freshwater river habitat to the eutrophic high-brackish lake habitat; salinity was more important than trophic status in explaining this decreased diversity. Salinity was the most important environmental factor in shaping community composition, while increased nitrogen loading was more important in structuring predicted functional composition. Within the lake habitats, the impact of environmental filtering on bacterial community assembly increased with the increasing salinity. The results suggested that the elevated salinity and nutrients have combined effects on the aquatic bacterial community, resulting in dramatic declines in species diversity, and promoted the importance of deterministic processes in community assembly. Our findings provide new insights into bacterial communities’ responses to the intensified climate-driven and anthropogenic environmental changes in aquatic ecosystems.
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spelling pubmed-79093992021-02-27 Aquatic Bacterial Diversity, Community Composition and Assembly in the Semi-Arid Inner Mongolia Plateau: Combined Effects of Salinity and Nutrient Levels Tang, Xiangming Xie, Guijuan Shao, Keqiang Tian, Wei Gao, Guang Qin, Boqiang Microorganisms Article Due to the recent decades of climate change and intensive human activities, endorheic lakes are threatened by both salinization and eutrophication. However, knowledge of the aquatic bacterial community’s response to simultaneous increasing salinity and trophic status is still poor. To address this knowledge gap, we collected 40 surface water samples from five lakes and six rivers on the semi-arid Inner Mongolia Plateau, and investigated their bacterial communities using 16S rRNA gene-targeted amplicon sequencing. We found that bacterial species diversity significantly decreased from the mesotrophic freshwater river habitat to the eutrophic high-brackish lake habitat; salinity was more important than trophic status in explaining this decreased diversity. Salinity was the most important environmental factor in shaping community composition, while increased nitrogen loading was more important in structuring predicted functional composition. Within the lake habitats, the impact of environmental filtering on bacterial community assembly increased with the increasing salinity. The results suggested that the elevated salinity and nutrients have combined effects on the aquatic bacterial community, resulting in dramatic declines in species diversity, and promoted the importance of deterministic processes in community assembly. Our findings provide new insights into bacterial communities’ responses to the intensified climate-driven and anthropogenic environmental changes in aquatic ecosystems. MDPI 2021-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7909399/ /pubmed/33498349 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020208 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tang, Xiangming
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Tian, Wei
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Aquatic Bacterial Diversity, Community Composition and Assembly in the Semi-Arid Inner Mongolia Plateau: Combined Effects of Salinity and Nutrient Levels
title Aquatic Bacterial Diversity, Community Composition and Assembly in the Semi-Arid Inner Mongolia Plateau: Combined Effects of Salinity and Nutrient Levels
title_full Aquatic Bacterial Diversity, Community Composition and Assembly in the Semi-Arid Inner Mongolia Plateau: Combined Effects of Salinity and Nutrient Levels
title_fullStr Aquatic Bacterial Diversity, Community Composition and Assembly in the Semi-Arid Inner Mongolia Plateau: Combined Effects of Salinity and Nutrient Levels
title_full_unstemmed Aquatic Bacterial Diversity, Community Composition and Assembly in the Semi-Arid Inner Mongolia Plateau: Combined Effects of Salinity and Nutrient Levels
title_short Aquatic Bacterial Diversity, Community Composition and Assembly in the Semi-Arid Inner Mongolia Plateau: Combined Effects of Salinity and Nutrient Levels
title_sort aquatic bacterial diversity, community composition and assembly in the semi-arid inner mongolia plateau: combined effects of salinity and nutrient levels
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7909399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33498349
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020208
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