Investigating the microbial ecology of coastal hotspots of marine nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Variation in the microbial cycling of nutrients and carbon in the ocean is an emergent property of complex planktonic communities. While recent findings have considerably expanded our understanding of the diversity and distribution of nitrog...
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ftunivliverpool:oai:livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk:3118067 2023-05-15T17:30:36+02:00 Investigating the microbial ecology of coastal hotspots of marine nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic Wang, Seaver Tang, Weiyi Delage, Erwan Gifford, Scott Whitby, Hannah González, Aridane G Eveillard, Damien Planquette, Hélène Cassar, Nicolas 2021-03-09 text http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3118067/ https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84969-1 http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3118067/1/Wang%20et%20al_AuthorProof.pdf en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3118067/1/Wang%20et%20al_AuthorProof.pdf Wang, Seaver, Tang, Weiyi, Delage, Erwan, Gifford, Scott, Whitby, Hannah orcid:0000-0002-0064-3052 , González, Aridane G, Eveillard, Damien, Planquette, Hélène and Cassar, Nicolas (2021) Investigating the microbial ecology of coastal hotspots of marine nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic. Scientific Reports, 11 (1). 5508-. Article NonPeerReviewed 2021 ftunivliverpool https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84969-1 2023-01-20T00:03:05Z <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Variation in the microbial cycling of nutrients and carbon in the ocean is an emergent property of complex planktonic communities. While recent findings have considerably expanded our understanding of the diversity and distribution of nitrogen (N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>) fixing marine diazotrophs, knowledge gaps remain regarding ecological interactions between diazotrophs and other community members. Using quantitative 16S and 18S V4 rDNA amplicon sequencing, we surveyed eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbial communities from samples collected in August 2016 and 2017 across the Western North Atlantic. Leveraging and significantly expanding an earlier published 2015 molecular dataset, we examined microbial community structure and ecological co-occurrence relationships associated with intense hotspots of N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation previously reported at sites off the Southern New England Shelf and Mid-Atlantic Bight. Overall, we observed a negative relationship between eukaryotic diversity and both N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation and net community production (NCP). Maximum N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation rates occurred at sites with high abundances of mixotrophic stramenopiles, notably <jats:italic>Chrysophyceae</jats:italic>. Network analysis revealed such stramenopiles to be keystone taxa alongside the haptophyte diazotroph host <jats:italic>Braarudosphaera bigelowii</jats:italic> and chlorophytes. Our findings highlight an intriguing relationship between marine stramenopiles and high N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation coastal sites.</jats:p> Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic The University of Liverpool Repository Scientific Reports 11 1 |
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Variation in the microbial cycling of nutrients and carbon in the ocean is an emergent property of complex planktonic communities. While recent findings have considerably expanded our understanding of the diversity and distribution of nitrogen (N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>) fixing marine diazotrophs, knowledge gaps remain regarding ecological interactions between diazotrophs and other community members. Using quantitative 16S and 18S V4 rDNA amplicon sequencing, we surveyed eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbial communities from samples collected in August 2016 and 2017 across the Western North Atlantic. Leveraging and significantly expanding an earlier published 2015 molecular dataset, we examined microbial community structure and ecological co-occurrence relationships associated with intense hotspots of N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation previously reported at sites off the Southern New England Shelf and Mid-Atlantic Bight. Overall, we observed a negative relationship between eukaryotic diversity and both N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation and net community production (NCP). Maximum N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation rates occurred at sites with high abundances of mixotrophic stramenopiles, notably <jats:italic>Chrysophyceae</jats:italic>. Network analysis revealed such stramenopiles to be keystone taxa alongside the haptophyte diazotroph host <jats:italic>Braarudosphaera bigelowii</jats:italic> and chlorophytes. Our findings highlight an intriguing relationship between marine stramenopiles and high N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation coastal sites.</jats:p> |
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Wang, Seaver Tang, Weiyi Delage, Erwan Gifford, Scott Whitby, Hannah González, Aridane G Eveillard, Damien Planquette, Hélène Cassar, Nicolas Investigating the microbial ecology of coastal hotspots of marine nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic |
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Investigating the microbial ecology of coastal hotspots of marine nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic |
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Investigating the microbial ecology of coastal hotspots of marine nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic |
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Investigating the microbial ecology of coastal hotspots of marine nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic |
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