Distribution patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunities
Abstract Environmental change exerts a profound effect on soil microbial domains—including bacteria, fungi, and protists—that each perform vital ecological processes. While these microbial domains are ubiquitous and extremely diverse, little is known about how they respond to environmental changes i...
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| author | Alexis Kayiranga Alain Isabwe Haifeng Yao Huayuan Shangguan Justin Louis Kafana Coulibaly Martin Breed Xin Sun |
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| description | Abstract Environmental change exerts a profound effect on soil microbial domains—including bacteria, fungi, and protists—that each perform vital ecological processes. While these microbial domains are ubiquitous and extremely diverse, little is known about how they respond to environmental changes in urban soil ecosystems and what ecological processes shape them. Here we investigated the community assembly processes governing bacteria, fungi, and protists through the lens of four distinct subcommunities: abundant, conditionally rare, conditionally abundant, and rare taxa. We show that transient taxa, including the conditionally rare and conditionally rare or abundant taxa, were the predominant subcommunities. Deterministic processes (e.g., environmental filtering) had major roles in structuring all subcommunities of fungi, as well as conditionally rare and abundant protists. Stochastic processes had strong effects in structuring all subcommunities of bacteria (except rare taxa) and conditionally rare protists. Overall, our study underscores the importance of complementing the traditional taxonomy of microbial domains with the subcommunity approach when investigating microbial communities in urban soil ecosystems. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fe749e468a934abcb8da3755e600514e2025-08-20T03:31:42ZengWileyEcology and Evolution2045-77582024-07-01147n/an/a10.1002/ece3.11672Distribution patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunitiesAlexis Kayiranga0Alain Isabwe1Haifeng Yao2Huayuan Shangguan3Justin Louis Kafana Coulibaly4Martin Breed5Xin Sun6Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Institute of Urban Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen ChinaKey Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Institute of Urban Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen ChinaKey Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Institute of Urban Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen ChinaKey Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Institute of Urban Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen ChinaKey Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Institute of Urban Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen ChinaCollege of Science and Engineering Flinders University Bedford Park South Australia AustraliaKey Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Institute of Urban Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen ChinaAbstract Environmental change exerts a profound effect on soil microbial domains—including bacteria, fungi, and protists—that each perform vital ecological processes. While these microbial domains are ubiquitous and extremely diverse, little is known about how they respond to environmental changes in urban soil ecosystems and what ecological processes shape them. Here we investigated the community assembly processes governing bacteria, fungi, and protists through the lens of four distinct subcommunities: abundant, conditionally rare, conditionally abundant, and rare taxa. We show that transient taxa, including the conditionally rare and conditionally rare or abundant taxa, were the predominant subcommunities. Deterministic processes (e.g., environmental filtering) had major roles in structuring all subcommunities of fungi, as well as conditionally rare and abundant protists. Stochastic processes had strong effects in structuring all subcommunities of bacteria (except rare taxa) and conditionally rare protists. Overall, our study underscores the importance of complementing the traditional taxonomy of microbial domains with the subcommunity approach when investigating microbial communities in urban soil ecosystems.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11672assembly processesdistribution patternssoil microbial domainsurban soil |
| spellingShingle | Alexis Kayiranga Alain Isabwe Haifeng Yao Huayuan Shangguan Justin Louis Kafana Coulibaly Martin Breed Xin Sun Distribution patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunities Ecology and Evolution assembly processes distribution patterns soil microbial domains urban soil |
| title | Distribution patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunities |
| title_full | Distribution patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunities |
| title_fullStr | Distribution patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Distribution patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunities |
| title_short | Distribution patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunities |
| title_sort | distribution patterns of soil bacteria fungi and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunities |
| topic | assembly processes distribution patterns soil microbial domains urban soil |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11672 |
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