Co-occurrence of planktonic bacteria and archaea affects their biogeographic patterns in China's coastal wetlands.

ABSTRACT: Planktonic bacteria and archaea play a key role in maintaining ecological functions in aquatic ecosystems; however, their biogeographic patterns and underlying mechanisms have not been well known in coastal wetlands including multiple types and at a large space scale. Therefore, planktonic bacteria and archaea and related environmental factors were investigated in twenty-one wetlands along China's coast to understand the above concerns. The results indicated that planktonic bacteria had different biogeographic pattern from planktonic archaea, and both patterns were not dependent on the wetland's types. Deterministic selection shapes the former's community structure, whereas stochastic processes regulate the latter's, being consistent with the fact that planktonic archaea have a larger nich

SUBMITTER: Wang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527667 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature