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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 1020-1037Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15281
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFC0505906]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [310430001]
- Interdisciplinary Research Funds of Beijing Normal University, China
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
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This study characterized soil bacterial communities and microbial functional genes in a coastal wetland ecosystem across a salinity gradient, revealing the critical role of soil salinity as an environmental filter on microbial diversity and biogeochemical processes. Higher bacterial richness and phylogenetic diversity were observed in saline soils, with specific taxa more prevalent in different salinity conditions. Salinity filtering effect shapes soil bacterial community composition and inhibits soil biogeochemical processes in estuary ecosystems.
Soil salinity acts as a critical environmental filter on microbial communities, but the consequences for microbial diversity and biogeochemical processes are poorly understood. Here, we characterized soil bacterial communities and microbial functional genes in a coastal estuarine wetland ecosystem across a gradient (similar to 5 km) ranging from oligohaline to hypersaline habitats by applying the PCR-amplified 16S rRNA (rRNA) genes sequencing and microarray-based GeoChip 5.0 respectively. Results showed that saline soils in marine intertidal and supratidal zone exhibited higher bacterial richness and Faith's phylogenetic diversity than that in the freshwater-affected habitats. The relative abundance of taxa assigned to Gammaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes was higher with increasing salinity, while those affiliated with Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi and Cyanobacteria were more prevalent in wetland soils with low salinity. The phylogenetic inferences demonstrated the deterministic role of salinity filtering on the bacterial community assembly processes. The abundance of most functional genes involved in carbon degradation and nitrogen cycling correlated negatively with salinity, except for the hzo gene, suggesting a critical role of the anammox process in tidal affected zones. Overall, the salinity filtering effect shapes the soil bacterial community composition, and soil salinity act as a critical inhibitor in the soil biogeochemical processes in estuary ecosystems.
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