Patterns of local, intercontinental and interseasonal variation of soil bacterial and eukaryotic microbial communities

Johan De Gruyter (Co-auteur), James T Weedon, Stéphane Bazot, Steven Dauwe, Pere-Roc Fernandez-Garberí, Stefan Geisen, Louis Gourlez De La Motte, Bernard Heinesch, Ivan A Janssens, Niki Leblans, Tanguy Manise, Romà Ogaya, Mikaell Ottosson Löfvenius, Josep Peñuelas, Bjarni D Sigurdsson, Gaëlle Vincent, Erik Verbruggen

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Although ongoing research has revealed some of the main drivers behind global spatial patterns of microbial communities, spatio-temporal dynamics of these communities still remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate spatio-temporal variability of both bacterial and eukaryotic soil microbial communities at local and intercontinental scales. We compare how temporal variation in community composition scales with spatial variation in community composition, and explore the extent to which bacteria, protists, fungi and metazoa have similar patterns of temporal community dynamics. All soil microbial groups displayed a strong correlation between spatial distance and community dissimilarity, which was related to the ratio of organism to sample size. Temporal changes were variable, ranging from equal to local between-sample variation, to as large as that between communities several thousand kilometers apart. Moreover, significant correlations were found between bacterial and protist communities, as well as between protist and fungal communities, indicating that these microbial groups change in tandem, potentially driven by interactions between them. We conclude that temporal variation can be considerable in soil microbial communities, and that future studies need to consider temporal variation in order to reliably capture all drivers of soil microbiome changes.

Originele taal-2Engels
Artikelnummerfiaa018
TijdschriftFEMS Microbiology Ecology
Volume96
Nummer van het tijdschrift3
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 01 mrt. 2020

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