Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America
Abstract
Soil diazotrophs play important roles in ecosystem functioning by converting atmospheric N2 into biologically available ammonium. However, the diversity and distribution of soil diazotrophic communities in different forests and whether they follow biogeographic patterns similar to macroorganisms still remain unclear. By sequencing nifH gene amplicons, we surveyed the diversity, structure and biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six North American forests (126 nested samples). Our results showed that each forest harboured markedly different soil diazotrophic communities and that these communities followed traditional biogeographic patterns similar to plant and animal communities, including the taxa–area relationship (TAR) and latitudinal diversity gradient. Significantly higher community diversity and lower microbial spatial turnover rates (i.e. z-values) were found for rainforests (~0.06) than temperate forests (~0.1). The gradient pattern of TARs and community diversity was strongly correlated (r2 > 0.5) with latitude, annual mean temperature, plant species richness and precipitation, and weakly correlated (r2 < 0.25) with pH and soil moisture. Here, this study suggests that even microbial subcommunities (e.g. soil diazotrophs) follow general biogeographic patterns (e.g. TAR, latitudinal diversity gradient), and indicates that the metabolic theory of ecology and habitat heterogeneity may be the major underlying ecological mechanisms shaping the biogeographic patterns of soilmore »
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[8];
- Zhejiang Univ. of Technology, Zhejiang (China); Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Inst. for Environmental Genomics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Inst. for Environmental Genomics
- Zhejiang Univ. of Technology, Zhejiang (China)
- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Santa Fe Inst., Santa Fe, NM (United States)
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States); Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst., Balboa (Panama)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Inst. for Environmental Genomics; 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.:
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1581100
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; NSF EF-1065844
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Molecular Ecology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0962-1083
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; biogeography; diversity gradients; nifH; soil diazotrophs; taxa–area relationship
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Tu, Qichao, Deng, Ye, Yan, Qingyun, Shen, Lina, Lin, Lu, He, Zhili, Wu, Liyou, Van Nostrand, Joy D., Buzzard, Vanessa, Michaletz, Sean T., Enquist, Brian J., Weiser, Michael D., Kaspari, Michael, Waide, Robert B., Brown, James H., and Zhou, Jizhong. Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1111/mec.13651.
Tu, Qichao, Deng, Ye, Yan, Qingyun, Shen, Lina, Lin, Lu, He, Zhili, Wu, Liyou, Van Nostrand, Joy D., Buzzard, Vanessa, Michaletz, Sean T., Enquist, Brian J., Weiser, Michael D., Kaspari, Michael, Waide, Robert B., Brown, James H., & Zhou, Jizhong. Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13651
Tu, Qichao, Deng, Ye, Yan, Qingyun, Shen, Lina, Lin, Lu, He, Zhili, Wu, Liyou, Van Nostrand, Joy D., Buzzard, Vanessa, Michaletz, Sean T., Enquist, Brian J., Weiser, Michael D., Kaspari, Michael, Waide, Robert B., Brown, James H., and Zhou, Jizhong. Sun .
"Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13651. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1581100.
@article{osti_1581100,
title = {Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America},
author = {Tu, Qichao and Deng, Ye and Yan, Qingyun and Shen, Lina and Lin, Lu and He, Zhili and Wu, Liyou and Van Nostrand, Joy D. and Buzzard, Vanessa and Michaletz, Sean T. and Enquist, Brian J. and Weiser, Michael D. and Kaspari, Michael and Waide, Robert B. and Brown, James H. and Zhou, Jizhong},
abstractNote = {Soil diazotrophs play important roles in ecosystem functioning by converting atmospheric N2 into biologically available ammonium. However, the diversity and distribution of soil diazotrophic communities in different forests and whether they follow biogeographic patterns similar to macroorganisms still remain unclear. By sequencing nifH gene amplicons, we surveyed the diversity, structure and biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six North American forests (126 nested samples). Our results showed that each forest harboured markedly different soil diazotrophic communities and that these communities followed traditional biogeographic patterns similar to plant and animal communities, including the taxa–area relationship (TAR) and latitudinal diversity gradient. Significantly higher community diversity and lower microbial spatial turnover rates (i.e. z-values) were found for rainforests (~0.06) than temperate forests (~0.1). The gradient pattern of TARs and community diversity was strongly correlated (r2 > 0.5) with latitude, annual mean temperature, plant species richness and precipitation, and weakly correlated (r2 < 0.25) with pH and soil moisture. Here, this study suggests that even microbial subcommunities (e.g. soil diazotrophs) follow general biogeographic patterns (e.g. TAR, latitudinal diversity gradient), and indicates that the metabolic theory of ecology and habitat heterogeneity may be the major underlying ecological mechanisms shaping the biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities.},
doi = {10.1111/mec.13651},
journal = {Molecular Ecology},
number = 12,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Sun Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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