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Geographic Scale Influences the Interactivities Between Determinism and Stochasticity in the Assembly of Sedimentary Microbial Communities on the South China Sea Shelf

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Determinism and stochasticity in microbial community composition decisions have attracted wide attention. However, there is no consensus on their interrelationships and relative importance, and the mechanism controlling the interaction between the two ecological processes remains to be revealed. The interaction of the two ecological processes on the continental shelf of the South China Sea was studied by performing 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing on 90 sediments at multiple depths in five sites. Three nearshore sites have higher microbial diversity than those two close to the shelf margin. Different microbial composition was observed between sites and microbial composition of nearshore sites was positively correlated with total nitrogen, total sulfur, total organic carbon, and dissolved oxygen, while that of offshore was positively correlated with total carbon, salinity, and photosynthetically active radiation. The null model test showed that the community composition among layers of the same site and between nearby sites was mainly dominated by the homogeneous selection, while that between distant sites was mainly affected by dispersal limitation, which indicates that geographic scale influences the interactivities of determinism and stochasticity. Our research indicates that the balance of these two ecological processes along the geographic scale is mainly determined by the dispersal ability of microbes and environmental heterogeneity between areas. The study provides new insights into how deterministic and stochastic processes shape microbial community composition on the continental shelf.

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The 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequences were submitted to NCBI database SRA under the project with accession PRJNA738643.

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We thank the South China Sea Science Investigation Public Voyage of Sun Yat-sen University and the chief scientist Jiaxue Wu, Pr., from the Center for Coastal Ocean Science and Technology for the sediment samples and CTD data. We also thank the Third Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources for their support for the element testing.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 91858208); Innovation Group Project of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) (No. 311020005); and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019M663209).

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Liu, H., Lin, G., Gao, D. et al. Geographic Scale Influences the Interactivities Between Determinism and Stochasticity in the Assembly of Sedimentary Microbial Communities on the South China Sea Shelf. Microb Ecol 85, 121–136 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01946-x

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