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Continental-scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands

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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 24, 期 11, 页码 5483-5497

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16099

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  1. Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China [2019HJ2096001006]
  2. Innovation Base Project of Gansu Province [20190323]
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31700463, 31770430]
  4. National Scientific and Technological Program on Basic Resources Investigation [2019FY102002]
  5. Top Leading Talents in Gansu Province
  6. U.S. Department of EnergyBER program
  7. Consejeria de Transformacion Economica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades of the Junta de Andalucia
  8. Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional
  9. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [PID2020-115813RAI00]

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A study in northern China's drylands found that there are distinct distributions of archaea and ammonia-oxidizing archaea in the soil. Archaea are mainly found in deserts, while ammonia-oxidizing archaea are more abundant in grasslands. The distribution of archaea is primarily driven by environmental factors, while ammonia-oxidizing archaea are influenced by spatial factors.
Archaea represent a diverse group of microorganisms often associated with extreme environments. However, an integrated understanding of biogeographical patterns of the specialist Haloarchaea and the potential generalist ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) across large-scale environmental gradients remains limited. We hypothesize that niche differentiation determines their distinct distributions along environmental gradients. To test the hypothesis, we use a continental-scale research network including 173 dryland sites across northern China. Our results demonstrate that Haloarchaea and AOA dominate topsoil archaeal communities. As hypothesized, Haloarchaea and AOA show strong niche differentiation associated with two ecosystem types mainly found in China's drylands (i.e. deserts vs. grasslands), and they differ in the degree of habitat specialization. The relative abundance and richness of Haloarchaea are higher in deserts due to specialization to relatively high soil salinity and extreme climates, while those of AOA are greater in grassland soils. Our results further indicate a divergence in ecological processes underlying the segregated distributions of Haloarchaea and AOA. Haloarchaea are governed primarily by environmental-based processes while the more generalist AOA are assembled mostly via spatial-based processes. Our findings add to existing knowledge of large-scale biogeography of topsoil archaea, advancing our predictive understanding on changes in topsoil archaeal communities in a drier world.

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