Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

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dc.contributor.authorBuelow, Heather N.en
dc.contributor.authorWinter, Ara S.en
dc.contributor.authorVan Horn, David J.en
dc.contributor.authorBarrett, John E.en
dc.contributor.authorGooseff, Michael N.en
dc.contributor.authorSchwartz, Egberten
dc.contributor.authorTakacs-Vesbach, Cristina D.en
dc.contributor.departmentBiological Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-14T19:33:15Zen
dc.date.available2019-03-14T19:33:15Zen
dc.date.issued2016-07-18en
dc.description.abstractThe soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica are an extreme polar desert, inhabited exclusively by microscopic taxa. This region is on the threshold of anticipated climate change, with glacial melt, permafrost thaw, and the melting of massive buried ice increasing liquid water availability and mobilizing soil nutrients. Experimental water and organic matter (OM) amendments were applied to investigate how these climate change effects may impact the soil communities. To identify active taxa and their functions, total community RNA transcripts were sequenced and annotated, and amended soils were compared with unamended control soils using differential abundance and expression analyses. Overall, taxonomic diversity declined with amendments of water and OM. The domain Bacteria increased with both amendments while Eukaryota declined from 38% of all taxa in control soils to 8 and 11% in water and OM amended soils, respectively. Among bacterial phyla, Actinobacteria (59%) dominated water-amended soils and Firmicutes (45%) dominated OM amended soils. Three bacterial phyla (Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Firmicutes) were primarily responsible for the observed positive functional responses, while eukaryotic taxa experienced the majority (27 of 34) of significant transcript losses. These results indicated that as climate changes in this region, a replacement of endemic taxa adapted to dry, oligotrophic conditions by generalist, copiotrophic taxa is likely.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01040en
dc.identifier.issn1664-302Xen
dc.identifier.other1040en
dc.identifier.pmid27486436en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/88450en
dc.identifier.volume7en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherFrontiersen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleMicrobial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarcticaen
dc.title.serialFrontiers in Microbiologyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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