Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 212, Issue -, Pages 217-226Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.040
Keywords
Anaerobic digestion; Bacteria; Archaea; Eukaryotes; Microbial ecology; 16S/18S high-throughput amplicon sequencing
Funding
- Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg - Luxembourg (FNR CORE project GASPOP) [CO11/SR/1280949]
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The goal of this study was to investigate how the microbial community structure establishes during the start-up phase of a full-scale farm anaerobic reactor inoculated with stale and cold cattle slurry. The 16S/18S high-throughput amplicon sequencing results showed an increase of the bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic diversity, evenness and richness during the settlement of the mesophilic anaerobic conditions. When a steady performing digestion process was reached, the microbial diversity, evenness and richness decreased, indicating the establishment of a few dominant microbial populations, best adapted to biogas production. Interestingly, among the environmental parameters, the temperature, alkalinity, free-NH3, total solids and O-2 content were found to be the main drivers of microbial dynamics. Interactions between eukaryotes, characterized by a high number of unknown organisms, and the bacterial and archaeal communities were also evidenced, suggesting that eukaryotes might play important roles in the anaerobic digestion process. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (hdp:Ocreativecommonnorndicensenbyrocsna/4.0/).
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