Lake mixing influences aquatic chemical properties and microbial community composition,and thus,we hypothesized that it would alter microbial community assembly and interac-tion.To clarify this issue,we explored the c...Lake mixing influences aquatic chemical properties and microbial community composition,and thus,we hypothesized that it would alter microbial community assembly and interac-tion.To clarify this issue,we explored the community assembly processes and cooccurrence networks in four seasons at two depths(epilimnion and hypolimnion)in a mesotrophic and stratified lake(Chenghai Lake),which formed stratification in the summer and turnover in the winter.During the stratification period,the epilimnion and hypolimnion went through contrary assembly processes but converged to similar assembly patterns in the mixing pe-riod.In a highly homogeneous selection environment,species with low niche breadth were filtered,resulting in decreased species richness.Water mixing in the winter homogenized the environment,resulting in a simpler microbial cooccurrence network.Interestingly,we observed a high abundance of the cyanobacterial genus Planktothrix in the winter,proba-bly due to nutrient redistribution and Planktothrix adaptivity to the winter environment in which mixing played important roles.Our study provides deeper fundamental insights into how environmental factors influence microbial community structure through community assembly processes.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51578537)Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.QYZDY-SSW-DQC004)。
文摘Lake mixing influences aquatic chemical properties and microbial community composition,and thus,we hypothesized that it would alter microbial community assembly and interac-tion.To clarify this issue,we explored the community assembly processes and cooccurrence networks in four seasons at two depths(epilimnion and hypolimnion)in a mesotrophic and stratified lake(Chenghai Lake),which formed stratification in the summer and turnover in the winter.During the stratification period,the epilimnion and hypolimnion went through contrary assembly processes but converged to similar assembly patterns in the mixing pe-riod.In a highly homogeneous selection environment,species with low niche breadth were filtered,resulting in decreased species richness.Water mixing in the winter homogenized the environment,resulting in a simpler microbial cooccurrence network.Interestingly,we observed a high abundance of the cyanobacterial genus Planktothrix in the winter,proba-bly due to nutrient redistribution and Planktothrix adaptivity to the winter environment in which mixing played important roles.Our study provides deeper fundamental insights into how environmental factors influence microbial community structure through community assembly processes.
