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Complex food webs coincide with high genetic potential for chemolithoautotrophy in fractured bedrock groundwater

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WATER RESEARCH
卷 170, 期 -, 页码 -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115306

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Sedimentary rock aquifers; Protists; Fungi; Trophic interactions; 16S rRNA V3-V4; 185 rRNA V1-V3

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  1. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [CRC 1076]
  2. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [FZT 118]
  3. Thuringer Ministerium fur Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft and Digitale Gesellschaft (TMWWDG) [2016 FGI 0024]

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Groundwater ecosystems face the challenge of energy limitation due to the absence of light-driven primary production. Lack of space and low oxygen availability might further contribute to generally assumed low food web complexity. Chemolithoautotrophy provides additional input of carbon within the subsurface, however, we still do not understand how abundances of chemolithoautotrophs, differences in surface carbon input, and oxygen availability control subsurface food web complexity. Using a molecular approach, we aimed to disentangle the different levels of potential trophic interactions in oligotrophic groundwater along a hillslope setting of alternating mixed carbonate-/siliciclastic bedrock with contrasting hydrochemical conditions and hotspots of chemolithoautotrophy. Across all sites, groundwater harbored diverse protist communities including Ciliophora, Cercozoa, Centroheliozoa, and Amoebozoa but correlations with hydrochemical parameters were less pronounced for eukaryotes compared to bacteria. Ciliophora-affiliated reads dominated the eukaryotic data sets across all sites. DNA-based evidence for the presence of metazoan top predators such as Cyclopoida (Arthropoda) and Stenostomidae (Platyhelminthes) was only found at wells where abundances of functional genes associated with chemolithoautotrophy were 10-100 times higher compared to wells without indications of these top predators. At wells closer to recharge areas with presumably increased inputs of soil-derived substances and biota, fungi accounted for up to 85% of the metazoan-curated eukaryotic sequence data, together with a low potential for chemolithoautotrophy. Although we did not directly observe higher organisms, our results point to the existence of complex food webs with several trophic levels in oligotrophic groundwater. Chemolithoautotrophy appears to provide strong support to more complex trophic interactions, feeding in additional biomass produced by light-independent CO2-fixation. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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