Dramatic Increases of Soil Microbial Functional Gene Diversity at the Treeline Ecotone of Changbai Mountain
Abstract
The elevational and latitudinal diversity patterns of microbial taxa have attracted great attention in the past decade. Recently, the distribution of functional attributes has been in the spotlight. Here, we report a study profiling soil microbial communities along an elevation gradient (500-2200 m) on Changbai Mountain. Using a comprehensive functional gene microarray (GeoChip 5.0), we found that microbial functional gene richness exhibited a dramatic increase at the treeline ecotone, but the bacterial taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing did not exhibit such a similar trend. However, the β-diversity (compositional dissimilarity among sites) pattern for both bacterial taxa and functional genes was similar, showing significant elevational distance-decay patterns which presented increased dissimilarity with elevation. The bacterial taxonomic diversity/structure was strongly influenced by soil pH, while the functional gene diversity/structure was significantly correlated with soil dissolved organic carbon (DOC). This finding highlights that soil DOC may be a good predictor in determining the elevational distribution of microbial functional genes. The finding of significant shifts in functional gene diversity at the treeline ecotone could also provide valuable information for predicting the responses of microbial functions to climate change.
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing (China); Univ. of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing (China)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States); Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); National Basic Research Program of China; State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1630593
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 41371254; 2014CB954002; XDB15010101; XDB15010312; ISSASIP1641; 2015FY110100; LFSE2014-02
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: JUL; Journal ID: ISSN 1664-302X
- Publisher:
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; metagenomics; GeoChip; microbial functional genes; bacterial taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity; alpha and beta diversity patterns; treeline ecotone; elevation gradient; soil dissolved organic carbon
Citation Formats
Shen, Congcong, Shi, Yu, Ni, Yingying, Deng, Ye, Van Nostrand, Joy D., He, Zhili, Zhou, Jizhong, and Chu, Haiyan. Dramatic Increases of Soil Microbial Functional Gene Diversity at the Treeline Ecotone of Changbai Mountain. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01184.
Shen, Congcong, Shi, Yu, Ni, Yingying, Deng, Ye, Van Nostrand, Joy D., He, Zhili, Zhou, Jizhong, & Chu, Haiyan. Dramatic Increases of Soil Microbial Functional Gene Diversity at the Treeline Ecotone of Changbai Mountain. United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01184
Shen, Congcong, Shi, Yu, Ni, Yingying, Deng, Ye, Van Nostrand, Joy D., He, Zhili, Zhou, Jizhong, and Chu, Haiyan. Fri .
"Dramatic Increases of Soil Microbial Functional Gene Diversity at the Treeline Ecotone of Changbai Mountain". United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01184. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1630593.
@article{osti_1630593,
title = {Dramatic Increases of Soil Microbial Functional Gene Diversity at the Treeline Ecotone of Changbai Mountain},
author = {Shen, Congcong and Shi, Yu and Ni, Yingying and Deng, Ye and Van Nostrand, Joy D. and He, Zhili and Zhou, Jizhong and Chu, Haiyan},
abstractNote = {The elevational and latitudinal diversity patterns of microbial taxa have attracted great attention in the past decade. Recently, the distribution of functional attributes has been in the spotlight. Here, we report a study profiling soil microbial communities along an elevation gradient (500-2200 m) on Changbai Mountain. Using a comprehensive functional gene microarray (GeoChip 5.0), we found that microbial functional gene richness exhibited a dramatic increase at the treeline ecotone, but the bacterial taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing did not exhibit such a similar trend. However, the β-diversity (compositional dissimilarity among sites) pattern for both bacterial taxa and functional genes was similar, showing significant elevational distance-decay patterns which presented increased dissimilarity with elevation. The bacterial taxonomic diversity/structure was strongly influenced by soil pH, while the functional gene diversity/structure was significantly correlated with soil dissolved organic carbon (DOC). This finding highlights that soil DOC may be a good predictor in determining the elevational distribution of microbial functional genes. The finding of significant shifts in functional gene diversity at the treeline ecotone could also provide valuable information for predicting the responses of microbial functions to climate change.},
doi = {10.3389/fmicb.2016.01184},
journal = {Frontiers in Microbiology},
number = JUL,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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