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Environmental drivers of plankton protist communities along latitudinal and vertical gradients in the oldest and deepest freshwater lake

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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 23, 期 3, 页码 1436-1451

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15346

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  1. European Research Council [322669, 787904]
  2. [0345-2016-0009]
  3. European Research Council (ERC) [787904] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)

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Researchers studied planktonic microbial eukaryotic communities in Lake Baikal at different depths and latitudes, finding that depth had a significant effect on protist community stratification, while the influence of latitude gradient was marginal. Epipelagic communities were more interconnected than those in the dark water column, showing specific biotic interactions among different nutritional modes of microorganisms.
Identifying which abiotic and biotic factors determine microbial community assembly is crucial to understand ecological processes and predict how communities will respond to environmental change. While global surveys aim at addressing this question in the world's oceans, equivalent studies in large freshwater systems are virtually lacking. Being the oldest, deepest and most voluminous freshwater lake on Earth, Lake Baikal offers a unique opportunity to test the effect of horizontal versus vertical gradients in community structure. Here, we characterized the structure of planktonic microbial eukaryotic communities (0.2-30 mu m cell size) along a North-South latitudinal gradient (similar to 600 km) from samples collected in coastal and pelagic waters and from surface to the deepest zones (5-1400 m) using an 18S rRNA gene metabarcoding approach. Our results show complex and diverse protist communities dominated by alveolates (ciliates and dinoflagellates), ochrophytes and holomycotan lineages, with cryptophytes, haptophytes, katablepharids and telonemids in moderate abundance and many low-frequency lineages, including several typical marine members, such as diplonemids, syndinians and radiolarians. Depth had a strong significant effect on protist community stratification. By contrast, the effect of the latitudinal gradient was marginal and no significant difference was observed between coastal and surface open water communities. Co-occurrence network analyses showed that epipelagic communities were significantly more interconnected than communities from the dark water column and suggest specific biotic interactions between autotrophic, heterotrophic and parasitic lineages that influence protist community structure. Since climate change is rapidly affecting Siberia and Lake Baikal, our comprehensive protist survey constitutes a useful reference to monitor ongoing community shifts.

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