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The Diversity and Composition of Soil Microbial Community Differ in Three Typical Wetland Types of the Sanjiang Plain, Northeastern China

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  • Mingyu Wang

    (Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education & Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration and Resource Utilization for Cold Region & Key Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Heilongjiang Province & School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150800, China
    Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration and Resource Utilization for Cold Region, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China)

  • Xiaohong Weng

    (Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education & Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration and Resource Utilization for Cold Region & Key Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Heilongjiang Province & School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150800, China
    Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration and Resource Utilization for Cold Region, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China)

  • Rongtao Zhang

    (Insititute of Nature and Ecology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150040, China)

  • Libin Yang

    (Insititute of Nature and Ecology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150040, China)

  • Yingnan Liu

    (Insititute of Nature and Ecology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150040, China)

  • Xin Sui

    (Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education & Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration and Resource Utilization for Cold Region & Key Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Heilongjiang Province & School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150800, China
    Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration and Resource Utilization for Cold Region, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
    Insititute of Nature and Ecology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150040, China
    Forest Dynamics Research Unit, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland)

Abstract

The wetlands in China’s Sanjiang Plain have experienced intensive anthropogenic disturbance recently, and this has obviously changed their environmental characteristics. Soil microorganisms play an important role in wetland ecosystems. However, the effects of different wetland types on soil microbial diversity and community composition remain largely unclear. Therefore, we assessed the effects of three typical wetland types—permanently flooded wetlands, seasonally flooded wetlands and non-flooded wetlands—on soil microbial communities in the Sanjiang Plain, using phospholipid fatty acid analysis (PLFA) technology. A total of 56 different PLFA compounds were identified, of which 10 are typically produced by uncharacterized bacteria, 15 by Gram-positive bacteria, and 11 by Gram-negative bacteria. In addition, 2 fungal groups were identified, based on four PLFAs, and four PLFAs typical for protozoa were detected. High levels were detected for 16:0 (attributed to bacteria) and i17:1ω9c (produced by Gram-positive bacteria). The latter (i17:1ω9c) was exceptionally high in non-flooded soil (8407.15 ± 2675.84 ng/g). High levels of 18:1ω7c (1939.15 ± 666.13 ng/g) and 18:1ω9c (1713.26 ± 360.65 ng/g) were detected in permanently flooded wetlands and about the same in seasonally flooded wetlands, but lower ranks were present in the drier non-flooded wetlands. The Shannon-Wiener diversity index decreased with permanently flooded wetlands (3.05) > seasonally flooded wetlands (3.02) > non-flooded wetlands (2.12). Redundancy analysis showed that the two axes could explain a total of 94.48% of soil microbial communities. Soil water content, total and available phosphorus, and total and available nitrogen correlated significantly with soil microbial communities of three wetland types. Cluster analysis of correlations between individual PLFA biomarkers and soil physiochemical properties demonstrated the complexity of the community responses to the three different habitats. This study demonstrates that microbial diversity and composition changed sensitivity among the three wetland types, and soil moisture content was the key environmental factor to affect the soil microbial communities.

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  • Mingyu Wang & Xiaohong Weng & Rongtao Zhang & Libin Yang & Yingnan Liu & Xin Sui, 2022. "The Diversity and Composition of Soil Microbial Community Differ in Three Typical Wetland Types of the Sanjiang Plain, Northeastern China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-14, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:21:p:14394-:d:962064
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