Resolving ecological drivers of temporal variations of β-diversity across intertidal microbiomes.

ABSTRACT: Resolving the ecological drivers mediating the diversity patterns of microbial communities across space and through time is a central issue in microbial ecology. Both regional species pools and local community assembly contribute to the spatial turnover of biodiversity. In this study, we extended the concept of regional species pool to temporal, and investigated the seasonal dynamics of intertidal microbiomes across four microbial domains/kingdoms (bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists). The results showed that the seasonal variations of microbial β-diversity were primarily governed by community assembly processes rather than temporal species pools. Different microbial domains/kingdoms were structured by different ecological processes, with homogeneous selection as the major process for a

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11879246 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature