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Spatial distribution of bacterial communities driven by multiple environmental factors in a beach wetland of the largest freshwater lake in China.

ABSTRACT: The spatial distributions of bacterial communities may be driven by multiple environmental factors. Thus, understanding the relationships between bacterial distribution and environmental factors is critical for understanding wetland stability and the functioning of freshwater lakes. However, little research on the bacterial communities in deep sediment layers exists. In this study, thirty clone libraries of 16S rRNA were constructed from a beach wetland of the Poyang Lake along both horizontal (distance to the water-land junction) and vertical (sediment depth) gradients to assess the effects of sediment properties on bacterial community structure and diversity. Our results showed that bacterial diversity increased along the horizontal gradient and decreased along the vertical gradient. The heterogeneous sediment properties along gradients substantially affected the dominant bacterial groups at the phylum and species levels. For example, the NH(+) 4 concentration decreased with increasing depth, which was positively correlated with the relative abundance of Alphaproteobacteria. The changes in bacterial diversity and dominant bacterial groups showed that the top layer had a different bacterial community structure than the deeper layers. Principal component analysis revealed that both gradients, not each gradient independently, contributed to the shift in the bacterial community structure. A multiple linear regression model explained the changes in bacterial diversity and richness along the depth and distance gradients. Overall, our results suggest that spatial gradients associated with sediment properties shaped the bacterial communities in the Poyang Lake beach wetland.

SUBMITTER: Ding X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4341555 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Spatial distribution of bacterial communities driven by multiple environmental factors in a beach wetland of the largest freshwater lake in China.

Ding Xia X Peng Xiao-Jue XJ Jin Bin-Song BS Xiao Ming M Chen Jia-Kuan JK Li Bo B Fang Chang-Ming CM Nie Ming M Nie Ming M

Frontiers in microbiology 20150226

The spatial distributions of bacterial communities may be driven by multiple environmental factors. Thus, understanding the relationships between bacterial distribution and environmental factors is critical for understanding wetland stability and the functioning of freshwater lakes. However, little research on the bacterial communities in deep sediment layers exists. In this study, thirty clone libraries of 16S rRNA were constructed from a beach wetland of the Poyang Lake along both horizontal ( ...[more]

PMID: 25767466

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Spatial distribution of bacterial communities driven by multiple environmental factors in a beach wetland of the largest freshwater lake in China.

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