Species' functional traits and interactions drive nitrate-mediated sulfur-oxidizing community structure and functioning.

ABSTRACT: Understanding processes and mechanisms governing microbial community structure and function is a central goal in microbial ecology. Previous studies disentangling the community assembly mechanisms were mainly based on taxonomic diversity but were rarely combined with species' functional traits and interactions. Here, we showed how species' functional traits and interactions determined microbial community structure and functions by a well-controlled laboratory experiment with nitrate-mediated sulfur oxidation systems using both culture-independent and culture-dependent technologies. The results showed that species were different in functional traits of nitrate-mediated sulfide and thiosulfate oxidation, which determined their relative abundance in the nitrate-mediated sulfur oxidation syste

SUBMITTER: Deng T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10653917 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature