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dc.contributor.authorMenéndez-Serra, M.
dc.contributor.authorOntiveros, V.J.
dc.contributor.authorBarberán, A.
dc.contributor.authorCasamayor, E.O.
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-18T22:09:20Z
dc.date.available2022-11-18T22:09:20Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationMenéndez-Serra, M., Ontiveros, V. J., Barberán, A., & Casamayor, E. O. (2022). Absence of stress-promoted facilitation coupled with a competition decrease in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes. Ecology.
dc.identifier.issn0012-9658
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ecy.3834
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/666831
dc.description.abstractSalinity fluctuations constitute a well-known high stress factor strongly shaping global biological distributions and abundances. However, there is a knowledge gap regarding how increasing saline stress affects microbial biological interactions. We applied the combination of a probabilistic method for estimating significant co-occurrences/exclusions and a conceptual framework for filtering out associations potentially linked to environmental and/or spatial factors, in a series of connected ephemeral (hyper) saline lakes. We carried out a network analysis over the full aquatic microbiome—bacteria, eukarya, and archaea—under severe salinity fluctuations. Most of the observed co-occurrences/exclusions were potentially explained by environmental niche and/or dispersal limitation. Co-occurrences assigned to potential biological interactions remained stable, suggesting that the salt gradient was not promoting interspecific facilitation processes. Conversely, co-exclusions assigned to potential biological interactions decreased along the gradient both in number and network complexity, pointing to a decrease of interspecies competition as salinity increased. Overall, higher saline stress reduced microbial co-exclusions while co-occurrences remained stable suggesting decreasing competition coupled with lack of stress-gradient promoted facilitation in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes. © 2022 The Authors. Ecology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Ecological Society of America.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEcological Society of America
dc.rightsCopyright © 2022 The Authors. Ecology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Ecological Society of America.
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dc.subjectaquatic microbiome
dc.subjectmicrobial interactions
dc.subjectnetwork analysis
dc.subjectsalt gradient
dc.subjectstress gradient hypothesis
dc.titleAbsence of stress-promoted facilitation coupled with a competition decrease in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes
dc.typeArticle
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dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Environmental Science, University of Arizona
dc.identifier.journalEcology
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dc.source.journaltitleEcology
refterms.dateFOA2022-11-18T22:09:22Z


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