ArticleEnvironmental microbiology reports2023
Trophic interrelationships of bacteria are important for shaping soil protist communities.
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- Trophic interrelationships of bacteria are important for shaping soil protist communities.Environmental microbiology reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Protists occupy multiple trophic positions in soil food webs and significantly contribute to organic matter decomposition and biogeochemical cycling. Protists can ingest bacteria and fungi as main food sources while being subjected to predation of invertebrates, but our understanding of how bottom-up and top-down regulations structure protists in natural soil habitats is limited. Here, we disentangle the effects of trophic regulations to the diversity and structure of soil protists in natural settings across northern and eastern Australia. Bacterial and invertebrate diversity were identified as important drivers of the diversity of functional groups of protists. Moreover, the compositions of protistan taxonomic and functional groups were better predicted by bacteria and fungi, than by soil invertebrates. There were strong trophic interconnections between protists and bacteria in multiple organismic network analysis. Altogether, the study provided new evidence that, bottom-up control of bacteria played an important role in shaping the soil protist community structure, which can be derived from feeding preferences of protists on microbial prey, and their intimate relationships in soil functioning or environmental adaptation. Our findings advance our knowledge about the impacts of different trophic groups on key soil organismic communities, with implications for ecosystem functions and services.
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