Ecological Succession Pattern of Fungal Community in Soil along a Retreating Glacier
Accelerated by global climate changing, retreating glaciers leave behind soil chronosequences of primary succession. Current knowledge of primary succession is mainly from studies of vegetation dynamics, whereas information about belowground microbes remains unclear. Here, we combined shifts in comm...
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| author | Jianqing Tian Yuchen Qiao Yuchen Qiao Bing Wu Huai Chen Huai Chen Wei Li Na Jiang Xiaoling Zhang Xingzhong Liu |
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| description | Accelerated by global climate changing, retreating glaciers leave behind soil chronosequences of primary succession. Current knowledge of primary succession is mainly from studies of vegetation dynamics, whereas information about belowground microbes remains unclear. Here, we combined shifts in community assembly processes with microbial primary succession to better understand mechanisms governing the stochastic/deterministic balance. We investigated fungal succession and community assembly via high-throughput sequencing along a well-established glacier forefront chronosequence that spans 2–188 years of deglaciation. Shannon diversity and evenness peaked at a distance of 370 m and declined afterwards. The response of fungal diversity to distance varied in different phyla. Basidiomycota Shannon diversity significantly decreased with distance, while the pattern of Rozellomycota Shannon diversity was unimodal. Abundance of most frequencies OTU2 (Cryptococcus terricola) increased with successional distance, whereas that of OTU65 (Tolypocladium tundrense) decreased. Based on null deviation analyses, composition of the fungal community was initially governed by deterministic processes strongly but later less deterministic processes. Our results revealed that distance, altitude, soil microbial biomass carbon, soil microbial biomass nitrogen and NH4+–N significantly correlated with fungal community composition along the chronosequence. These results suggest that the drivers of fungal community are dynamics in a glacier chronosequence, that may relate to fungal ecophysiological traits and adaptation in an evolving ecosystem. The information will provide understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of microbial community assembly during ecosystem succession under different scales and scenario. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f80a01c7fab24a87b220a64496bf830d2022-12-21T17:15:34ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2017-06-01810.3389/fmicb.2017.01028254679Ecological Succession Pattern of Fungal Community in Soil along a Retreating GlacierJianqing Tian0Yuchen Qiao1Yuchen Qiao2Bing Wu3Huai Chen4Huai Chen5Wei Li6Na Jiang7Xiaoling Zhang8Xingzhong Liu9State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, ChinaBeijing Radiation Centre, Beijing Academy of Science and TechnologyBeijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, ChinaKey Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization and Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation, Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesChengdu, ChinaZoige Peatland and Global Change Research Station, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesHongyuan, ChinaSchool of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan UniversityKunming, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, ChinaAccelerated by global climate changing, retreating glaciers leave behind soil chronosequences of primary succession. Current knowledge of primary succession is mainly from studies of vegetation dynamics, whereas information about belowground microbes remains unclear. Here, we combined shifts in community assembly processes with microbial primary succession to better understand mechanisms governing the stochastic/deterministic balance. We investigated fungal succession and community assembly via high-throughput sequencing along a well-established glacier forefront chronosequence that spans 2–188 years of deglaciation. Shannon diversity and evenness peaked at a distance of 370 m and declined afterwards. The response of fungal diversity to distance varied in different phyla. Basidiomycota Shannon diversity significantly decreased with distance, while the pattern of Rozellomycota Shannon diversity was unimodal. Abundance of most frequencies OTU2 (Cryptococcus terricola) increased with successional distance, whereas that of OTU65 (Tolypocladium tundrense) decreased. Based on null deviation analyses, composition of the fungal community was initially governed by deterministic processes strongly but later less deterministic processes. Our results revealed that distance, altitude, soil microbial biomass carbon, soil microbial biomass nitrogen and NH4+–N significantly correlated with fungal community composition along the chronosequence. These results suggest that the drivers of fungal community are dynamics in a glacier chronosequence, that may relate to fungal ecophysiological traits and adaptation in an evolving ecosystem. The information will provide understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of microbial community assembly during ecosystem succession under different scales and scenario.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01028/fullprimary successionstochastic/deterministic processestime-dependentHailuogou glacierbiogeography |
| spellingShingle | Jianqing Tian Yuchen Qiao Yuchen Qiao Bing Wu Huai Chen Huai Chen Wei Li Na Jiang Xiaoling Zhang Xingzhong Liu Ecological Succession Pattern of Fungal Community in Soil along a Retreating Glacier Frontiers in Microbiology primary succession stochastic/deterministic processes time-dependent Hailuogou glacier biogeography |
| title | Ecological Succession Pattern of Fungal Community in Soil along a Retreating Glacier |
| title_full | Ecological Succession Pattern of Fungal Community in Soil along a Retreating Glacier |
| title_fullStr | Ecological Succession Pattern of Fungal Community in Soil along a Retreating Glacier |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ecological Succession Pattern of Fungal Community in Soil along a Retreating Glacier |
| title_short | Ecological Succession Pattern of Fungal Community in Soil along a Retreating Glacier |
| title_sort | ecological succession pattern of fungal community in soil along a retreating glacier |
| topic | primary succession stochastic/deterministic processes time-dependent Hailuogou glacier biogeography |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01028/full |
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