Increasing Inundation Frequencies Enhance the Stochastic Process and Network Complexity of the Soil Archaeal Community in Coastal Wetlands.

ABSTRACT: Coastal wetlands are experiencing frequent flooding because of global climate changes, such as the rising sea level. Despite the key role of archaea in soil biogeochemical cycles, the assembly processes and co-occurrence patterns of archaeal communities in coastal wetlands in response to increasing inundation frequencies remain elusive. In this study, we established an in situ mesocosm with an inundation frequency gradient to investigate the response of soil archaeal community toward increasing inundation frequencies in monocultures of Spartina alterniflora and a mangrove species, Kandelia obovata Both neutral community model and null model analyses suggested that stochastic processes are dominant in governing the archaeal community assembly and that the stochastic pro

SUBMITTER: Gao GF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8208137 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature