Interplay between eutrophication and climate warming on bacterial communities in coastal sediments differs depending on water depth and oxygen history

Abstract Coastal aquatic systems suffer from nutrient enrichment, which results in accelerated eutrophication effects due to increased microbial metabolic rates. Climate change related prolonged warming will likely accelerate existing eutrophication effects, including low oxygen concentrations. Howe...

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Autores principales: Laura Seidel, Elias Broman, Stephanie Turner, Magnus Ståhle, Mark Dopson
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1b721ffe436b47dfaafa10372bb981bf2021-12-05T12:14:59ZInterplay between eutrophication and climate warming on bacterial communities in coastal sediments differs depending on water depth and oxygen history10.1038/s41598-021-02725-x2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/1b721ffe436b47dfaafa10372bb981bf2021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02725-xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Coastal aquatic systems suffer from nutrient enrichment, which results in accelerated eutrophication effects due to increased microbial metabolic rates. Climate change related prolonged warming will likely accelerate existing eutrophication effects, including low oxygen concentrations. However, how the interplay between these environmental changes will alter coastal ecosystems is poorly understood. In this study, we compared 16S rRNA gene amplicon based bacterial communities in coastal sediments of a Baltic Sea basin in November 2013 and 2017 at three sites along a water depth gradient with varying bottom water oxygen histories. The shallow site showed changes of only 1.1% in relative abundance of bacterial populations in 2017 compared to 2013, while the deep oxygen-deficient site showed up to 11% changes in relative abundance including an increase of sulfate-reducing bacteria along with a 36% increase in organic matter content. The data suggested that bacterial communities in shallow sediments were more resilient to seasonal oxygen decline, while bacterial communities in sediments subjected to long-term hypoxia seemed to be sensitive to oxygen changes and were likely to be under hypoxic/anoxic conditions in the future. Our data demonstrate that future climate changes will likely fuel eutrophication related spread of low oxygen zones.Laura SeidelElias BromanStephanie TurnerMagnus StåhleMark DopsonNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021)
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Laura Seidel
Elias Broman
Stephanie Turner
Magnus Ståhle
Mark Dopson
Interplay between eutrophication and climate warming on bacterial communities in coastal sediments differs depending on water depth and oxygen history
description Abstract Coastal aquatic systems suffer from nutrient enrichment, which results in accelerated eutrophication effects due to increased microbial metabolic rates. Climate change related prolonged warming will likely accelerate existing eutrophication effects, including low oxygen concentrations. However, how the interplay between these environmental changes will alter coastal ecosystems is poorly understood. In this study, we compared 16S rRNA gene amplicon based bacterial communities in coastal sediments of a Baltic Sea basin in November 2013 and 2017 at three sites along a water depth gradient with varying bottom water oxygen histories. The shallow site showed changes of only 1.1% in relative abundance of bacterial populations in 2017 compared to 2013, while the deep oxygen-deficient site showed up to 11% changes in relative abundance including an increase of sulfate-reducing bacteria along with a 36% increase in organic matter content. The data suggested that bacterial communities in shallow sediments were more resilient to seasonal oxygen decline, while bacterial communities in sediments subjected to long-term hypoxia seemed to be sensitive to oxygen changes and were likely to be under hypoxic/anoxic conditions in the future. Our data demonstrate that future climate changes will likely fuel eutrophication related spread of low oxygen zones.
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author Laura Seidel
Elias Broman
Stephanie Turner
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Mark Dopson
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title Interplay between eutrophication and climate warming on bacterial communities in coastal sediments differs depending on water depth and oxygen history
title_short Interplay between eutrophication and climate warming on bacterial communities in coastal sediments differs depending on water depth and oxygen history
title_full Interplay between eutrophication and climate warming on bacterial communities in coastal sediments differs depending on water depth and oxygen history
title_fullStr Interplay between eutrophication and climate warming on bacterial communities in coastal sediments differs depending on water depth and oxygen history
title_full_unstemmed Interplay between eutrophication and climate warming on bacterial communities in coastal sediments differs depending on water depth and oxygen history
title_sort interplay between eutrophication and climate warming on bacterial communities in coastal sediments differs depending on water depth and oxygen history
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