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Significant Bacterial Distance-Decay Relationship in Continuous, Well-Connected Southern Ocean Surface Water

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Recently, an increasing number of studies have focused on the biogeographic distribution of marine microorganisms. However, the extent to which geographic distance can affect marine microbial communities is still unclear, especially for the microbial communities in well-connected surface seawaters. In this study, the bacterial community compositions of 21 surface seawater samples, that were distributed over a distance of 7800 km, were surveyed to investigate how bacterial community similarity changes with increasing geographical distance. Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes were the dominant bacterial phyla, with Proteobacteria accounting for 52.6–92.5% and Bacteroidetes comprising 3.5–46.9% of the bacterial communities. A significant bacterial distance-decay relationship was observed in the well-connected Southern Ocean surface seawater. The number of pairwise shared operational taxonomic units (OTUs), and community similarities tended to decrease with increasing geographic distance. Calculation of the similarity indices with all, abundant or rare OTUs did not affect the observed distance-decay relationship. Spatial distance can largely explain the observed bacterial community variation. This study shows that even in well-connected surface waters, bacterial distance-decay patterns can be found as long as the geographical distance is great enough. The biogeographic patterns should then be present for marine microorganisms considering the large size and complexity of the marine ecosystem.

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The work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (grants 2018YFC1406700, 2018YFC1406702, 2018YFC1406704, and 2018YFC1406706), the National Science Foundation of China (grants 31670063, 31670038, U1706207, 31800107, 91851205, and 31870101), AoShan Talents Cultivation Program Supported by Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (2017ASTCP-OS14), Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province (tspd20181203), the Key Research Project of Shandong Province (2017GSF21106), and the Young Scholars Program of Shandong University (2016WLJH36).

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  1. Institute of Marine Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

    Zhi-Bin Wang, Yuan-Yuan Sun, Yi Li, Xiu-Lan Chen, Xi-Ying Zhang, Xiao-Yan Song, Yu-Zhong Zhang & Qi-Long Qin

  2. Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

    Peng Wang, Yu-Zhong Zhang & Qi-Long Qin

  3. College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute for Advanced Ocean Study, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

    Peng Wang, Min Wang, Andrew McMinn & Yu-Zhong Zhang

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    Hai-Tao Ding & Bo Chen

  5. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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Wang, ZB., Sun, YY., Li, Y. et al. Significant Bacterial Distance-Decay Relationship in Continuous, Well-Connected Southern Ocean Surface Water. Microb Ecol 80, 73–80 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-019-01472-x

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