Community organization and network complexity and stability: contrasting strategies of prokaryotic versus eukaryotic microbiomes in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea.

ABSTRACT: Unraveling the effects of spatial gradients on microbiome assembly and association is a challenging topic that remains understudied in the coastal ecosystem. Here, we aimed to investigate the effects of spatial variation on the network complexity and stability of plankton microbiomes in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea. These seas serve as spawning and nursery grounds for economically important fisheries valued at billions of dollars annually. Environmental heterogeneity structures microbial communities into distinct spatial patterns, leading to complex direct/indirect relationships and broader ecological niches of bacterioplankton compared to microeukaryotic communities. Interestingly, salinity gradients positively influenced the richness of rare subgroups of bacterioplankton, while the rare

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11423591 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature