Climate-driven shifts in algal-bacterial interaction of high-mountain lakes in two years spanning a decade

Abstract Algal-bacterial interactions include mutualism, commensalism, and predation. However, how multiple environmental conditions that regulate the strength and prevalence of a given interaction remains unclear. Here, we test the hypothesis that the prevailing algal-bacterial interaction shifted...

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Autores principales: Juan Manuel González-Olalla, Juan Manuel Medina-Sánchez, Ismael L. Lozano, Manuel Villar-Argaiz, Presentación Carrillo
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/86d1f9208db144d38bb6b80e895f8471
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Sumario:Abstract Algal-bacterial interactions include mutualism, commensalism, and predation. However, how multiple environmental conditions that regulate the strength and prevalence of a given interaction remains unclear. Here, we test the hypothesis that the prevailing algal-bacterial interaction shifted in two years (2005 versus 2015), due to increased temperature (T) and Saharan dust depositions in high-mountain lakes of Sierra Nevada (S Spain). Our results support the starting hypothesis that the nature of the prevailing algal-bacterial interaction shifted from a bacterivory control exerted by algae to commensalism, coinciding with a higher air and water T as well as the lower ratio sestonic nitrogen (N): phosphorous (P), related to greater aerosol inputs. Projected global change conditions in Mediterranean region could decline the functional diversity and alter the role of mixotrophy as a carbon (C) by-pass in the microbial food web, reducing the biomass-transfer efficiency up the web by increasing the number of trophic links.