Functional redundancy buffers the effect of poly-extreme environmental conditions on southern African dryland soil microbial communities

dc.article.numberfiae157
dc.catalogadoraba
dc.contributor.authorSauma-Sánchez, Tomás
dc.contributor.authorAlcorta Loyola, Jaime Andrés
dc.contributor.authorTamayo Leiva, Javier Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorDiez Moreno, Beatriz
dc.contributor.authorBezuidenhout, Hugo
dc.contributor.authorCowan, Don A.
dc.contributor.authorRamond, Jean-Baptiste
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-01T13:15:20Z
dc.date.available2025-04-01T13:15:20Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractDrylands' poly-extreme conditions limit edaphic microbial diversity and functionality. Furthermore, climate change exacerbates soil desiccation and salinity in most drylands. To better understand the potential effects of these changes on dryland microbial communities, we evaluated their taxonomic and functional diversities in two Southern African dryland soils with contrasting aridity and salinity. Fungal community structure was significantly influenced by aridity and salinity, while Bacteria and Archaea only by salinity. Deterministic homogeneous selection was significantly more important for bacterial and archaeal communities' assembly in hyperarid and saline soils when compared to those from arid soils. This suggests that niche partitioning drives bacterial and archaeal communities' assembly under the most extreme conditions. Conversely, stochastic dispersal limitations drove the assembly of fungal communities. Hyperarid and saline soil communities exhibited similar potential functional capacities, demonstrating a disconnect between microbial structure and function. Structure variations could be functionally compensated by different taxa with similar functions, as implied by the high levels of functional redundancy. Consequently, while environmental selective pressures shape the dryland microbial community assembly and structures, they do not influence their potential functionality. This suggests that they are functionally stable and that they could be functional even under harsher conditions, such as those expected with climate change., Salinity and aridity shape the assembly and structures, but not the potential functionality, of microbial communities from Southern African dryland soils.
dc.description.funderFBIP; Folio: FBIS160422162807
dc.description.funderANID/FONDECYT; Folio: 1210912
dc.description.funderANID—Millennium Science Initiative Program; Folio: ICN2021_044 to B.D.
dc.format.extent14 páginas
dc.fuente.origenORCID
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/femsec/fiae157
dc.identifier.eissn1574-6941
dc.identifier.issn0168-6496
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-85212592435
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae157
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/103067
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001375213300001
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Ciencias Biológicas; Sauma Sánchez, Tomás Ignacio; S/I; 1027864
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Ciencias Biológicas; Alcorta Loyola, Jaime Andrés; S/I; 187040
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Ciencias Biológicas; Tamayo Leiva, Javier Alejandro; S/I; 1031203
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Ciencias Biológicas; Diez Moreno, Beatriz; 0000-0002-9371-8083; 1009001
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Ciencias Biológicas; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; S/I; 1105832
dc.issue.numero12
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido completo
dc.revistaFEMS Microbiology Ecology
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectDryland soils
dc.subjectEdaphic microbial communities
dc.subjectFunctional redundancy
dc.subjectMetabarcoding
dc.subjectNiche partitioning
dc.subjectShotgun metagenomics
dc.subject.ddc570
dc.subject.deweyBiologíaes_ES
dc.subject.ods13 Climate action
dc.subject.ods14 Life below water
dc.subject.ods15 Life on land
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.subject.odspa14 Vida submarina
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.titleFunctional redundancy buffers the effect of poly-extreme environmental conditions on southern African dryland soil microbial communities
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen100
sipa.codpersvinculados1027864
sipa.codpersvinculados1031203
sipa.codpersvinculados1009001
sipa.codpersvinculados1105832
sipa.trazabilidadORCID;2025-03-03
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