Fungal Communities Are Important Determinants of Bacterial Community Composition in Deadwood

ABSTRACT Fungal-bacterial interactions play a key role in the functioning of many ecosystems. Thus, understanding their interactive dynamics is of central importance for gaining predictive knowledge on ecosystem functioning. However, it is challenging to disentangle the mechanisms behind species ass...

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Autores principales: Iñaki Odriozola, Nerea Abrego, Vojtěch Tláskal, Petra Zrůstová, Daniel Morais, Tomáš Větrovský, Otso Ovaskainen, Petr Baldrian
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e681837af3be4052b9bcf59b94aad0452021-12-02T18:20:19ZFungal Communities Are Important Determinants of Bacterial Community Composition in Deadwood10.1128/mSystems.01017-202379-5077https://doaj.org/article/e681837af3be4052b9bcf59b94aad0452021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.01017-20https://doaj.org/toc/2379-5077ABSTRACT Fungal-bacterial interactions play a key role in the functioning of many ecosystems. Thus, understanding their interactive dynamics is of central importance for gaining predictive knowledge on ecosystem functioning. However, it is challenging to disentangle the mechanisms behind species associations from observed co-occurrence patterns, and little is known about the directionality of such interactions. Here, we applied joint species distribution modeling to high-throughput sequencing data on co-occurring fungal and bacterial communities in deadwood to ask whether fungal and bacterial co-occurrences result from shared habitat use (i.e., deadwood’s properties) or whether there are fungal-bacterial interactive associations after habitat characteristics are taken into account. Moreover, we tested the hypothesis that the interactions are mainly modulated through fungal communities influencing bacterial communities. For that, we quantified how much the predictive power of the joint species distribution models for bacterial and fungal community improved when accounting for the other community. Our results show that fungi and bacteria form tight association networks (i.e., some species pairs co-occur more frequently and other species pairs co-occur less frequently than expected by chance) in deadwood that include common (or opposite) responses to the environment as well as (potentially) biotic interactions. Additionally, we show that information about the fungal occurrences and abundances increased the power to predict the bacterial abundances substantially, whereas information about the bacterial occurrences and abundances increased the power to predict the fungal abundances much less. Our results suggest that fungal communities may mainly affect bacteria in deadwood. IMPORTANCE Understanding the interactive dynamics between fungal and bacterial communities is important to gain predictive knowledge on ecosystem functioning. However, little is known about the mechanisms behind fungal-bacterial associations and the directionality of species interactions. Applying joint species distribution modeling to high-throughput sequencing data on co-occurring fungal-bacterial communities in deadwood, we found evidence that nonrandom fungal-bacterial associations derive from shared habitat use as well as (potentially) biotic interactions. Importantly, the combination of cross-validations and conditional cross-validations helped us to answer the question about the directionality of the biotic interactions, providing evidence that suggests that fungal communities may mainly affect bacteria in deadwood. Our modeling approach may help gain insight into the directionality of interactions between different components of the microbiome in other environments.Iñaki OdriozolaNerea AbregoVojtěch TláskalPetra ZrůstováDaniel MoraisTomáš VětrovskýOtso OvaskainenPetr BaldrianAmerican Society for Microbiologyarticlebiotic interactionsco-occurrencecross-validationconditional cross-validationfungal-bacterial interactionsHMSCMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmSystems, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic biotic interactions
co-occurrence
cross-validation
conditional cross-validation
fungal-bacterial interactions
HMSC
Microbiology
QR1-502
spellingShingle biotic interactions
co-occurrence
cross-validation
conditional cross-validation
fungal-bacterial interactions
HMSC
Microbiology
QR1-502
Iñaki Odriozola
Nerea Abrego
Vojtěch Tláskal
Petra Zrůstová
Daniel Morais
Tomáš Větrovský
Otso Ovaskainen
Petr Baldrian
Fungal Communities Are Important Determinants of Bacterial Community Composition in Deadwood
description ABSTRACT Fungal-bacterial interactions play a key role in the functioning of many ecosystems. Thus, understanding their interactive dynamics is of central importance for gaining predictive knowledge on ecosystem functioning. However, it is challenging to disentangle the mechanisms behind species associations from observed co-occurrence patterns, and little is known about the directionality of such interactions. Here, we applied joint species distribution modeling to high-throughput sequencing data on co-occurring fungal and bacterial communities in deadwood to ask whether fungal and bacterial co-occurrences result from shared habitat use (i.e., deadwood’s properties) or whether there are fungal-bacterial interactive associations after habitat characteristics are taken into account. Moreover, we tested the hypothesis that the interactions are mainly modulated through fungal communities influencing bacterial communities. For that, we quantified how much the predictive power of the joint species distribution models for bacterial and fungal community improved when accounting for the other community. Our results show that fungi and bacteria form tight association networks (i.e., some species pairs co-occur more frequently and other species pairs co-occur less frequently than expected by chance) in deadwood that include common (or opposite) responses to the environment as well as (potentially) biotic interactions. Additionally, we show that information about the fungal occurrences and abundances increased the power to predict the bacterial abundances substantially, whereas information about the bacterial occurrences and abundances increased the power to predict the fungal abundances much less. Our results suggest that fungal communities may mainly affect bacteria in deadwood. IMPORTANCE Understanding the interactive dynamics between fungal and bacterial communities is important to gain predictive knowledge on ecosystem functioning. However, little is known about the mechanisms behind fungal-bacterial associations and the directionality of species interactions. Applying joint species distribution modeling to high-throughput sequencing data on co-occurring fungal-bacterial communities in deadwood, we found evidence that nonrandom fungal-bacterial associations derive from shared habitat use as well as (potentially) biotic interactions. Importantly, the combination of cross-validations and conditional cross-validations helped us to answer the question about the directionality of the biotic interactions, providing evidence that suggests that fungal communities may mainly affect bacteria in deadwood. Our modeling approach may help gain insight into the directionality of interactions between different components of the microbiome in other environments.
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author Iñaki Odriozola
Nerea Abrego
Vojtěch Tláskal
Petra Zrůstová
Daniel Morais
Tomáš Větrovský
Otso Ovaskainen
Petr Baldrian
author_facet Iñaki Odriozola
Nerea Abrego
Vojtěch Tláskal
Petra Zrůstová
Daniel Morais
Tomáš Větrovský
Otso Ovaskainen
Petr Baldrian
author_sort Iñaki Odriozola
title Fungal Communities Are Important Determinants of Bacterial Community Composition in Deadwood
title_short Fungal Communities Are Important Determinants of Bacterial Community Composition in Deadwood
title_full Fungal Communities Are Important Determinants of Bacterial Community Composition in Deadwood
title_fullStr Fungal Communities Are Important Determinants of Bacterial Community Composition in Deadwood
title_full_unstemmed Fungal Communities Are Important Determinants of Bacterial Community Composition in Deadwood
title_sort fungal communities are important determinants of bacterial community composition in deadwood
publisher American Society for Microbiology
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/e681837af3be4052b9bcf59b94aad045
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