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Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature.

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Wang, Z; Juarez, DL; Pan, J-F; Blinebry, SK; Gronniger, J; Clark, JS; Johnson, ZI; Hunt, DE
Published in: Environmental microbiology
October 2019

Recent studies have focused on linking marine microbial communities with environmental factors, yet, relatively little is known about the drivers of microbial community patterns across the complex gradients from the nearshore to open ocean. Here, we examine microbial dynamics in 15 five-station transects beginning at the estuarine Piver's Island Coastal Observatory (PICO) time-series site and continuing 87 km across the continental shelf to the oligotrophic waters of the Sargasso Sea. 16S rRNA gene libraries reveal strong clustering by sampling site with distinct nearshore, continental shelf and offshore oceanic communities. Water temperature and distance from shore (which serves as a proxy for gradients in factors such as productivity, terrestrial input and nutrients) both most influence community composition. However, at the phylotype level, modelling shows the distribution of some taxa is linked to temperature, others to distance from shore and some by both factors, highlighting that taxa with distinct environmental preferences underlie apparent clustering by station. Thus, continental margins contain microbial communities that are distinct from those of either the nearshore or the offshore environments and contain mixtures of phylotypes with nearshore or offshore preferences rather than those unique to the shelf environment.

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Environmental microbiology

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EISSN

1462-2920

ISSN

1462-2912

Publication Date

October 2019

Volume

21

Issue

10

Start / End Page

3862 / 3872

Related Subject Headings

  • Temperature
  • Seawater
  • Roseobacter
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
  • Oceans and Seas
  • Microbiota
  • Microbiology
  • Cyanobacteria
  • Aquatic Organisms
  • 3107 Microbiology
 

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Wang, Z., Juarez, D. L., Pan, J.-F., Blinebry, S. K., Gronniger, J., Clark, J. S., … Hunt, D. E. (2019). Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature. Environmental Microbiology, 21(10), 3862–3872. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14734
Wang, Zhao, Doris L. Juarez, Jin-Fen Pan, Sara K. Blinebry, Jessica Gronniger, James S. Clark, Zackary I. Johnson, and Dana E. Hunt. “Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature.Environmental Microbiology 21, no. 10 (October 2019): 3862–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14734.
Wang Z, Juarez DL, Pan J-F, Blinebry SK, Gronniger J, Clark JS, et al. Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature. Environmental microbiology. 2019 Oct;21(10):3862–72.
Wang, Zhao, et al. “Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature.Environmental Microbiology, vol. 21, no. 10, Oct. 2019, pp. 3862–72. Epmc, doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14734.
Wang Z, Juarez DL, Pan J-F, Blinebry SK, Gronniger J, Clark JS, Johnson ZI, Hunt DE. Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature. Environmental microbiology. 2019 Oct;21(10):3862–3872.
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Published In

Environmental microbiology

DOI

EISSN

1462-2920

ISSN

1462-2912

Publication Date

October 2019

Volume

21

Issue

10

Start / End Page

3862 / 3872

Related Subject Headings

  • Temperature
  • Seawater
  • Roseobacter
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
  • Oceans and Seas
  • Microbiota
  • Microbiology
  • Cyanobacteria
  • Aquatic Organisms
  • 3107 Microbiology