Yueyue Li, Kai Ma, Wen Song, Jiayin Zhou, Xia Liu, Mengqi Wang, Qichao Tu
Uncovering the mechanisms driving patterns of diversity across space and through time is of critical importance in microbial community ecology. Previous studies suggest that microorganisms also follow the same spatial scaling patterns as macro-organisms. However, it remains unclear whether different microbial functional groups differ in spatial scaling and how different ecological processes may contribute to such differences. In this study, two typical spatial scaling patterns, taxa-area (TAR) and distance-decay relationships (DDR), were investigated for the whole prokaryotic community and seven microbial functional groups using marker genes, including amoA (AOA), amoA (AOB), aprA, dsrB, mcrA, nifH and nirS...
May 2, 2023: Science of the Total Environment