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ECOSPHERE
卷 4, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00136.1
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Antarctica; beta diversity; biogeography; diversity partitioning; McMurdo Dry Valleys; metacommunities; soil microbial ecology; Transantarctic Mountains; variation partitioning
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资金
- US National Science Foundation [OPP-0944560, OPP-1246292, OPP-0944556]
- New Zealand Marsden Fund [UOW0802, UOW1003]
- Foundation for Research, Science and Technology of New Zealand [UOWX0715]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [1115245] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Polar Programs
- Directorate For Geosciences [0944556] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
- Directorate For Geosciences [0944560] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The metacommunity concept provides a useful framework to assess the influence of local and regional controls over diversity patterns. Culture-independent studies of soil microbial communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of East Antarctica (77 degrees S) have shown that bacterial diversity is related to soil geochemical gradients, while studies targeting edaphic cyanobacteria have linked local diversity patterns to dispersal-based processes. In this study, we increased the spatial extent of observed soil microbial communities to cover the Beardmore Glacier region in the central Transantarctic Mountains (84 degrees S). We used community profiling techniques to characterize diversity patterns for bacteria and the cyanobacterial subcomponent of the microbial community. Diversity partitioning was used to calculate beta diversity and estimate among-site dissimilarity in the metacommunity. We then used variation partitioning to assess the relationship between beta diversity and environmental and spatial gradients. We found that dominant groups in the soil bacterial metacommunity were influenced by gradients in pH and soil moisture at the Transantarctic scale (800 km). Conversely, beta diversity for the cyanobacterial component of the edaphic microbial metacommunity was decoupled from these environmental gradients, and was more related to spatial filters, suggesting that wind-driven dispersal dynamics created cyanobacterial biogeography at a local scale (<3 km).
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