A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

Ning, Daliang; Yuan, Mengting; Wu, Linwei; Zhang, Ya; Guo, Xue; Zhou, Xishu; Yang, Yunfeng; Arkin, Adam P.; Firestone, Mary K.; Zhou, Jizhong

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18560-z

A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

Journal Article · Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18560-z· OSTI ID:1766124

; ; ; Zhang, Ya; ; Zhou, Xishu; ; Arkin, Adam P.; Firestone, Mary K.;

Abstract

Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology. Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major community assembly processes, defining their relative importance is very challenging. Here, we present a framework to quantitatively infer community assembly mechanisms by phylogenetic bin-based null model analysis (iCAMP). iCAMP shows high accuracy (0.93–0.99), precision (0.80–0.94), sensitivity (0.82–0.94), and specificity (0.95–0.98) on simulated communities, which are 10–160% higher than those from the entire community-based approach. Application of iCAMP to grassland microbial communities in response to experimental warming reveals dominant roles of homogeneous selection (38%) and ‘drift’ (59%). Interestingly, warming decreases ‘drift’ over time, and enhances homogeneous selection which is primarily imposed on Bacillales. In addition, homogeneous selection has higher correlations with drought and plant productivity under warming than control. iCAMP provides an effective and robust tool to quantify microbial assembly processes, and should also be useful for plant and animal ecology.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0010715; SC0014079; SC0016247; SC0020163

OSTI ID:: 1766124

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1706664

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 11; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United Kingdom

Language:: English

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