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Turnover is replaced by nestedness with increasing geographical distance in bacterial communities of coastal shallow lakes

Marla Sonaira Lima https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9972-5033 A F , Fabiana Schneck https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0018-444X B , Ng Haig They https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4132-2703 C , Luciane Oliveira Crossetti D , Juliana Elisa Bohnenberger A , Katherine D. McMahon E and David da Motta Marques A
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A Laboratório de Ecotecnologia e Limnologia Aplicada, Instituto de Pesquisas Hidráulicas, Universidade Federal Rio Grande do Sul, Avenida Bento Gonçalves 9500, Setor 5, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

B Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Avenida Itália quilômetro 8, 96203-900, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

C Centro de Estudos Costeiros, Limnológicos e Marinhos, Departamento Interdisciplinar, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Avenida Tramandaí 976 Centro 95625-000, Imbé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

D Laboratório de Limnologia, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Avenida Bento Gonçalves 9500, Setor 4, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil.

E Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Microbial Science Building, 1550 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

F Corresponding author. Email: marlalimas@gmail.com

Marine and Freshwater Research 71(9) 1086-1098 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19110
Submitted: 26 March 2019  Accepted: 8 October 2019   Published: 17 January 2020

Abstract

In this study we measured the relative contribution of two components of β-diversity, turnover and nestedness, of bacterioplankton among 25 shallow lakes in southern Brazil and tested their relationship with local (environment, chlorophyll-a and biomass of phytoplanktonic classes) and landscape variables, as well as geographical distance. We predicted that turnover would be the largest share of total β-diversity due to the variation of local characteristics among lakes. Further, we expected nestedness to increase at the expense of turnover with increasing geographical distance among lakes due to dispersal limitation. The results indicated a higher contribution of turnover than nestedness to total β-diversity, which was driven by local factors. When the relationship between β-diversity components and the spatial extent between each lake and all other lakes was considered, turnover was replaced by nestedness with increasing geographical distance for 8 (the furthermost lakes) of the 25 lakes likely because of a combination of decreasing dispersal due to distance and richness differences due to wind-driven mass effects. The results of this study suggest a role for nestedness as an indicator of dispersal limitation owing to geographical distance and wind dispersal, and for turnover as an indicator of species sorting because of environmental filters for these freshwater bacterial communities.

Additional keywords: bacterioplankton, β-diversity, metacommunity, microbial biogeography, spatial scales.


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