Methanogens and Methanotrophs Show Nutrient-Dependent Community Assemblage Patterns Across Tropical Peatlands of the Pastaza-Marañón Basin, Peruvian Amazonia

Tropical peatlands are globally important carbon reservoirs that play a crucial role in fluxes of atmospheric greenhouse gases. Amazon peatlands are expected to be large source of atmospheric methane (CH ) emissions, however little is understood about the rates of CH flux or the microorganisms that...

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Published in:Frontiers in microbiology 2020-04, Vol.11, p.746-746
Main Authors: Finn, Damien Robert, Ziv-El, Michal, van Haren, Joost, Park, Jin Gyoon, Del Aguila-Pasquel, Jhon, Urquiza-Muñoz, Jose David, Cadillo-Quiroz, Hinsby
Format: Article
Language:English
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amazon
greenhouse gases
methane
methanogens
methanotrophs
Microbiology
peatlands
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Summary:Tropical peatlands are globally important carbon reservoirs that play a crucial role in fluxes of atmospheric greenhouse gases. Amazon peatlands are expected to be large source of atmospheric methane (CH ) emissions, however little is understood about the rates of CH flux or the microorganisms that mediate it in these environments. Here we studied a mineral nutrient gradient across peatlands in the Pastaza-Marañón Basin, the largest tropical peatland in South America, to describe CH fluxes and environmental factors that regulate species assemblages of methanogenic and methanotrophic microorganisms. Peatlands were grouped as minerotrophic, mixed and ombrotrophic categories by their general water source leading to different mineral nutrient content (rich, mixed and poor) quantified by trace elements abundance. Microbial communities clustered dependent on nutrient content (ANOSIM < 0.001). Higher CH flux was associated with minerotrophic communities compared to the other categories. The most dominant methanogens and methanotrophs were represented by , and , respectively. Weighted network analysis demonstrated tight clustering of most methanogen families with minerotrophic-associated microbial families. Populations of were present across all peatlands. Null model testing for species assemblage patterns and species rank distributions confirmed non-random aggregations of methanotroph and methanogen families ( < 0.05). We conclude that in studied amazon peatlands increasing mineral nutrient content provides favorable habitats for , while populations seem to broadly distribute independent of nutrient content.
ISSN:1664-302X
1664-302X
DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00746