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Area of Science:

  • Ecology
  • Microbiology
  • Biodiversity Science

Background:

  • Spatial scaling of biodiversity, including taxa-area relationships (TAR) and distance-decay relationships (DDR), is a fundamental ecological pattern observed in various life forms.
  • Previous microbial studies primarily focused on *if* and *how* different microbial taxa exhibit spatial scaling, with limited exploration into the underlying ecological mechanisms.
  • Microorganisms are crucial for ecosystem functions, yet their diversity patterns and assembly mechanisms across different domains and trophic levels require further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To comparatively investigate the spatial scaling of biodiversity across different microbial domains (archaea, bacteria, fungi, protists) within an intertidal zone.
  • To identify the ecological processes driving the observed spatial scaling patterns in distinct microbial domains.
  • To link microbial spatial scaling patterns with their underlying ecological mechanisms and community assembly processes.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of spatial scaling patterns (TAR and DDR) across archaea, bacteria, fungi, and protists in an intertidal mudflat.
  • Application of Hill numbers to extend diversity metrics for analyzing spatial scaling.
  • Statistical analyses to determine the influence of environmental factors and local community assembly processes (drift, selection, dispersal limitation) on each microbial domain.

Main Results:

  • Significant spatial scaling of biodiversity was observed across all investigated microbial domains.
  • Archaea and fungi exhibited stronger distance-decay relationship slopes compared to bacteria and protists.
  • Rare subcommunities were primarily responsible for spatial scaling patterns in most cases, with distinct assembly processes (drift, homogeneous selection, dispersal limitation) shaping each microbial domain.

Conclusions:

  • Microbial spatial scaling patterns differ significantly among domains, influenced by domain-specific environmental factors and community assembly processes.
  • Archaea are shaped by homogeneous selection, fungi by dispersal limitation, and bacteria/protists by drift, leading to domain-level differentiation in spatial scaling.
  • This study provides novel mechanistic insights into microbial diversity patterns by connecting spatial scaling with underlying ecological processes across different microbial domains.