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Selection, drift and community interactions shape microbial biogeographic patterns in the Pacific Ocean

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ISME JOURNAL
卷 16, 期 12, 页码 2653-2665

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DOI: 10.1038/s41396-022-01318-4

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  1. German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [03G0248A, 03G0254A]
  2. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within the Collaborative Research Center [TRR51]

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This study demonstrates the relative significance of ecological mechanisms in shaping microbial communities in the Pacific Ocean, specifically in terms of selection, dispersal, and drift. Temperature plays an important role in determining the importance of homogeneous selection and dispersal limitation in community assembly. Co-occurrence-based community metrics are found to be better indicators of biogeographic patterns compared to compositional or phylogenetic distance measures. These findings contribute to our understanding of microbial community assembly processes and their role in global biogeochemical processes.
Despite accumulating data on microbial biogeographic patterns in terrestrial and aquatic environments, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how these patterns establish, in particular in ocean basins. Here we show the relative significance of the ecological mechanisms selection, dispersal and drift for shaping the composition of microbial communities in the Pacific Ocean over a transect of 12,400 km between subantarctic and subarctic regions. In the epipelagic, homogeneous selection contributes 50-60% and drift least to the three mechanism for the assembly of prokaryotic communities whereas in the upper mesopelagic, drift is relatively most important for the particle-associated subcommunities. Temperature is important for the relative significance of homogeneous selection and dispersal limitation for community assembly. The relative significance of both mechanisms was inverted with increasing temperature difference along the transect. For eukaryotes >8 mu m, homogeneous selection is also the most important mechanisms at two epipelagic depths whereas at all other depths drift is predominant. As species interactions are essential for structuring microbial communities we further analyzed co-occurrence-based community metrics to assess biogeographic patterns over the transect. These interaction-adjusted indices explained much better variations in microbial community composition as a function of abiotic and biotic variables than compositional or phylogenetic distance measures like Bray-Curtis or UniFrac. Our analyses are important to better understand assembly processes of microbial communities in the upper layers of the largest ocean and how they adapt to effectively perform in global biogeochemical processes. Similar principles presumably act upon microbial community assembly in other ocean basins.

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