Homogeneous selection shapes free-living and particle-associated bacterial communities in subtropical coastal waters

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Aim: In microbial biogeography, it is crucial to link spatial patterns with underlying drivers in natural ecosystems. Bacterial communities driving key biogeochemical processes in coastal zones, which are important interfaces between terrestrial and marine ecosystems, are affected by perturbations due to both natural and anthropogenic factors. However, the assembly of bacterioplankton communities, either free-living (FL) or particle-associated, in coastal ecosystems is still poorly understood. Location: Coastal South China Sea influenced by the Pearl River (SCSPR). Methods: In this study, we investigated FL, nanoparticle-associated (NA) and microparticle-associated (MA) bacterial communities in the SCSPR, using environmental DNA metabarcoding based on the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene. We assessed the relative importance of ecological processes using null model analyses based on a two-step framework. Results: We found that the observed amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) increased from FL, NA to MA communities, and a remarkably pervasive core set of ASVs closely belonged to potential hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria with wide habitat niche breadths. Analyses of similarity tests revealed that FL, NA and MA communities differed significantly but weakly, based on unweighted (R = 0.27, p

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Wu, W., Xu, Z., Dai, M., Gan, J., & Liu, H. (2021). Homogeneous selection shapes free-living and particle-associated bacterial communities in subtropical coastal waters. Diversity and Distributions, 27(10), 1904–1917. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13193

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