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Water regime history drives responses of soil Namib Desert microbial communities to wetting events.
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- Distinct responses from bacterial, archaeal and fungal streambed communities to severe hydrological disturbances.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Nutrient Acquisition, Rather Than Stress Response Over Diel Cycles, Drives Microbial Transcription in a Hyper-Arid Namib Desert Soil.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Flooding Duration Affects the Structure of Terrestrial and Aquatic Microbial Eukaryotic Communities.Microbial ecology · 2018Article
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- Namib Desert edaphic bacterial, fungal and archaeal communities assemble through deterministic processes but are influenced by different abiotic parameters.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2017Article
- Diel-scale temporal dynamics recorded for bacterial groups in Namib Desert soil.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Despite the dominance of microorganisms in arid soils, the structures and functional dynamics of microbial communities in hot deserts remain largely unresolved. The effects of wetting event frequency and intensity on Namib Desert microbial communities from two soils with different water-regime histories were tested over 36 days. A total of 168 soil microcosms received wetting events mimicking fog, light rain and heavy rainfall, with a parallel "dry condition" control. T-RFLP data showed that the different wetting events affected desert microbial community structures, but these effects were attenuated by the effects related to the long-term adaptation of both fungal and bacterial communities to soil origins (i.e. soil water regime histories). The intensity of the water pulses (i.e. the amount of water added) rather than the frequency of wetting events had greatest effect in shaping bacterial and fungal community structures. In contrast to microbial diversity, microbial activities (enzyme activities) showed very little response to the wetting events and were mainly driven by soil origin. This experiment clearly demonstrates the complexity of microbial community responses to wetting events in hyperarid hot desert soil ecosystems and underlines the dynamism of their indigenous microbial communities.
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