Jacob A. Heil, Allison Simler-Williamson, Miranda L. Striluk, Danielle Trawick, Rachel Capezza, Chadwick DeFehr, Aubrey Osorio, Bruce Finney, Kathryn G. Turner, Leonora S. Bittleston
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Weather and leaf age separately contribute to temporal shifts in phyllosphere fungal community structure in sagebrush
Microbial communities living on plant leaves can positively or negatively influence plant health and, by extension, can impact whole ecosystems. Most research into the leaf microbiome consists of snapshots, and little is known about how microbial communities change over time. Weather and host physiological characteristics change over time and are often collinear with other time-varying factors, such as substrate availability, making it difficult to separate the factors driving microbial community change. We leveraged repeated measures over the course of an entire year to isolate the relative importance of environmental, host physiological, and substrate age-related factors on the structure of leaf-associated fungal communities. We applied both culturing and sequencing approaches to investigate these communities, focusing on a foundational, widely distributed plant of conservation concern: basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. tridentata). We found that changes in alpha diversity were independently affected by the age of leaves and the air temperature. Total fungal abundance and species richness were not positively correlated and responded differently, sometimes oppositely, to weather. With regard to beta diversity, communities were more similar to each other across similar leaf ages, air temperatures, leaf types, and δ13C stable isotope ratios. Nine different genera were differentially abundant with air temperature, δ13C, leaf type, and leaf age, and a set of 20 genera were continuously present across the year. Our findings highlight the necessity for longer term, repeated sampling to parse drivers of temporal change in leaf microbial communities.
期刊介绍:
The scope of Ecosphere is as broad as the science of ecology itself. The journal welcomes submissions from all sub-disciplines of ecological science, as well as interdisciplinary studies relating to ecology. The journal''s goal is to provide a rapid-publication, online-only, open-access alternative to ESA''s other journals, while maintaining the rigorous standards of peer review for which ESA publications are renowned.