Ecological networks of dissolved organic matter and microorganisms under global change.

Authors
Hu, Ang 
Choi, Mira 
Liu, Jinfu 

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Abstract

Microbes regulate the composition and turnover of organic matter. Here we developed a framework called Energy-Diversity-Trait integrative Analysis to quantify how dissolved organic matter and microbes interact along global change drivers of temperature and nutrient enrichment. Negative and positive interactions suggest decomposition and production processes of organic matter, respectively. We applied this framework to manipulative field experiments on mountainsides in subarctic and subtropical climates. In both climates, negative interactions of bipartite networks were more specialized than positive interactions, showing fewer interactions between chemical molecules and bacterial taxa. Nutrient enrichment promoted specialization of positive interactions, but decreased specialization of negative interactions, indicating that organic matter was more vulnerable to decomposition by a greater range of bacteria, particularly at warmer temperatures in the subtropical climate. These two global change drivers influenced specialization of negative interactions most strongly via molecular traits, while molecular traits and bacterial diversity similarly affected specialization of positive interactions.

Publication Date
2022-06-23
Online Publication Date
2022-06-23
Acceptance Date
2022-06-09
Keywords
Article, /704/158/852, /704/158/853, /704/286, /704/47, /38/23, /101/58, article
Journal Title
Nat Commun
Journal ISSN
2041-1723
2041-1723
Volume Title
13
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
European Research Council (804673)