ArticleNature communications2023
Ecological mechanisms and current systems shape the modular structure of the global oceans' prokaryotic seascape.
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- Microbial cohorts: bringing ecological meaning to the modularity concept of co-occurrence networks.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Ecogenomics and functional biogeography of the Roseobacter group in the global oceans based on 653 MAGs and SAGs.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Rare Phyla, Such as CPR and DPANN, Shape Ecosystem-Level Microbial Community Structure Dissimilarities.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Ocean currents and environmental gradients shape prokaryotic community structure and function in the South China Sea.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Disentangling microbial networks across pelagic zones in the tropical and subtropical global ocean.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Major biogeographic features of the microbial seascape in the oceans have been established and their underlying ecological mechanisms in the (sub)tropical oceans and the Pacific Ocean identified. However, we still lack a unifying understanding of how prokaryotic communities and biogeographic patterns are affected by large-scale current systems in distinct ocean basins and how they are globally shaped in line with ecological mechanisms. Here we show that prokaryotic communities in the epipelagic Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, in the southern Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea are composed of modules of co-occurring taxa with similar environmental preferences. The relative partitioning of these modules varies along latitudinal and longitudinal gradients and are related to different hydrographic and biotic conditions. Homogeneous selection and dispersal limitation were identified as the major ecological mechanisms shaping these communities and their free-living (FL) and particle-associated (PA) fractions. Large-scale current systems govern the dispersal of prokaryotic modules leading to the highest diversity near subtropical fronts.
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