ArticlemSphere2026
Location and habitat specificity structure benthic microbial assemblages in a temperate seagrass ecosystem.
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Abstract
Seagrass meadows are globally distributed coastal ecosystems that provide habitats for diverse species and facilitate ecosystem services, such as carbon storage and nutrient cycling. However, anthropogenic activities and climate change are causing seagrass decline worldwide, broadly impacting ecosystem functioning. Although macrofaunal communities in seagrass habitats are relatively well studied, benthic microbial assemblages (including microeukaryote groups such as protists and microbial metazoa) remain underexplored. In this study, we used environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to characterize assemblages of bacteria/archaea (16S rRNA gene), microeukaryotes (18S rRNA amplified from raw sediment), and meiofauna (18S rRNA amplified from sieved and Ludoxed sediment fractions) in seagrass fields and bare sediment habitats at three sites along an estuarine gradient in Bodega Harbor, California. We found that microbial and microeukaryote communities were primarily structured by location, with sediment properties (sand vs silt/clay proportions) being the main driver of community assemblages. Habitat type was a secondary factor influencing benthic fauna, with bare sediments typically displaying higher biodiversity than seagrass beds, except at Westside Park mudflats, where bare sediments showed significantly reduced diversity compared to all other sampling locations. The differential recovery of nematode bioindicator taxa, including
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