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Salinity and nutrient modulate soil bacterial communities in the coastal wetland of the Yellow River Delta, China

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The Yellow River Delta is the largest and youngest estuarine and coastal wetland in China and is experiencing the most active interactions of seawater and freshwater in the world. Bacteria played multifaceted influence on soil biogeochemical processes, and it was necessary to investigate the intermodulation between the soil factors and bacterial communities. Soil samples were collected at sites with different salinity degree, vegetations, and interference. The sequences of bacilli were tested using 16S rRNA sequencing method and operational taxonomic units were classified with 97% similarity. The soil was highly salinized and oligotrophic, and the wetland was nitrogen-restricted. Redundancy analysis suggested that factors related with seawater erosion were principal to drive the changes of soil bacterial communities and then the nutrient level and human disturbance. A broader implication was that, in the early succession stages of the coastal ecosystem, seawater erosion was the key driver of the variations of marine oligotrophic bacterial communities, while the increasing nutrient availability may enhance in the abundance of the riverine copiotrophs in the late stages. This study provided new insights on the characteristics of soil bacterial communities in estuarine and coastal wetlands.

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We appreciated Michael E Willmore and Jianhua Li for their help to improve the manuscript and referees for their suggestions.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (grant number 182300410165) and Ph.D. Science Foundation of North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (grant number 201901002).

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  1. School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China

    Qingli Cheng

  2. Henan Engineering Research Center of Water Pollution and Soil Damage Remediation, Zhengzhou, China

    Qingli Cheng

  3. Henan Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China

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  4. School of Health Management, Henan Finance University, Zhengzhou, China

    Huiping Chang, Xue Yang, Ding Wang & Wenlin Wang

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design and also took part in the field survey and the soil sampling. Physical and chemical parameters of the samplings were measured and analyzed by Yang Xue and Wang Ding. The materials on bacterial communities were performed by Cheng Qingli and Chang Huiping. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Cheng Qingli and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. This revision was mainly contributed by Cheng Qingli and Wang Wenlin. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Cheng, Q., Chang, H., Yang, X. et al. Salinity and nutrient modulate soil bacterial communities in the coastal wetland of the Yellow River Delta, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 14621–14631 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11626-x

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