Microbiome succession during ammonification in eelgrass bed sediments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is a marine angiosperm and foundation species that plays an important ecological role in primary production, food web support, and elemental cycling in coastal ecosystems. As with other plants, the microbial communities living in, on, and near eelgrass are thought to be intimately connected to the ecology and biology of eelgrass. Here we characterized the microbial communities in eelgrass sediments throughout an experiment to quantify the rate of ammonification, the first step in early remineralization of organic matter, also known as diagenesis, from plots at a field site in Bodega Bay, CA.

Methods

Sediment was collected from 72 plots from a 15 month long field experiment in which eelgrass genotypic richness and relatedness were m

SUBMITTER: Ettinger CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5563154 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature