ArticleMicrobiology spectrum2025
Spatial heterogeneity dominates bacterial biogeography in the surface waters from the South China Sea by structuring environmental gradients.
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- Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Co-Occurrence Patterns of Marine Fungal Communities Along Nutrient Gradients in the Leizhou Peninsula, China.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Horizontal Dispersal Limitation and Vertical Environmental Filtering Drive Ciliate Community Assembly in a Tibetan Plateau Deep Lake.Microorganisms · 2026Article
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Abstract
Studies in environmental bacterial communities are updating our view of the powerful small-scale environmental pressures governing the bacterial community assembly. However, it remains unclear about the processes acting at broader scales, such as the thousand-kilometer scale and highly connected marine habitats. We employed a high-coverage sampling strategy combined with 16S rRNA gene sequencing to investigate the biogeography, assembly mechanisms, and co-occurrence relationships of bacterial communities in the surface waters from the intensively human-affected coasts to the open ocean of the South China Sea. Results revealed a clear geographical clustering of both environmental factors and bacterial communities from a semi-enclosed bay of the Beibu Gulf (BG), a coastal sea area of the Guangdong coast (GD), and an open region of the western South China Sea (WS). Determinant environmental drivers of bacterial communities in the three regions were also distinct: dissolved nutrients in GD, SiO
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