ArticleThe ISME journal2016
Ecological succession leads to chemosynthesis in mats colonizing wood in sea water.
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- A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
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- Historical contingency impacts on community assembly and ecosystem function in chemosynthetic marine ecosystems.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Bacterial Succession Decreases Network Complexity During Plant Material Decomposition in Mangroves.Microbial ecology · 2018Article
- Bacteria alone establish the chemical basis of the wood-fall chemosynthetic ecosystem in the deep-sea.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- The early conversion of deep-sea wood falls into chemosynthetic hotspots revealed by in situ monitoring.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Unraveling the microbial processes of black band disease in corals through integrated genomics.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Bacterial Succession on Sinking Particles in the Ocean's Interior.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Temporal and Spatial Variations of Bacterial and Faunal Communities Associated with Deep-Sea Wood Falls.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Chemosynthetic mats involved in cycling sulfur compounds are often found in hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and whale falls. However, there are only few records of wood fall mats, even though the presence of hydrogen sulfide at the wood surface should create a perfect niche for sulfide-oxidizing bacteria. Here we report the growth of microbial mats on wood incubated under conditions that simulate the Mediterranean deep-sea temperature and darkness. We used amplicon and metagenomic sequencing combined with fluorescence in situ hybridization to test whether a microbial succession occurs during mat formation and whether the wood fall mats present chemosynthetic features. We show that the wood surface was first colonized by sulfide-oxidizing bacteria belonging to the Arcobacter genus after only 30 days of immersion. Subsequently, the number of sulfate reducers increased and the dominant Arcobacter phylotype changed. The ecological succession was reflected by a change in the metabolic potential of the community from chemolithoheterotrophs to potential chemolithoautotrophs. Our work provides clear evidence for the chemosynthetic nature of wood fall ecosystems and demonstrates the utility to develop experimental incubation in the laboratory to study deep-sea chemosynthetic mats.
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