PMID- 33171740
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240330
IS  - 2076-2607 (Print)
IS  - 2076-2607 (Electronic)
IS  - 2076-2607 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 11
DP  - 2020 Nov 7
TI  - Microbial Species-Area Relationships in Antarctic Cryoconite Holes Depend on 
      Productivity.
LID - 10.3390/microorganisms8111747 [doi]
LID - 1747
AB  - The island species-area relationship (ISAR) is a positive association between the 
      number of species and the area of an isolated, island-like habitat. ISARs are 
      ubiquitous across domains of life, yet the processes generating ISARs remain 
      poorly understood, particularly for microbes. Larger and more productive islands 
      are hypothesized to have more species because they support larger populations of 
      each species and thus reduce the probability of stochastic extinctions in small 
      population sizes. Here, we disentangled the effects of "island" size and 
      productivity on the ISAR of Antarctic cryoconite holes. We compared the species 
      richness of bacteria and microbial eukaryotes on two glaciers that differ in 
      their productivity across varying hole sizes. We found that cryoconite holes on 
      the more productive Canada Glacier gained more species with increasing hole area 
      than holes on the less productive Taylor Glacier. Within each glacier, neither 
      productivity nor community evenness explained additional variation in the ISAR. 
      Our results are, therefore, consistent with productivity shaping microbial ISARs 
      at broad scales. More comparisons of microbial ISARs across environments with 
      limited confounding factors, such as cryoconite holes, and experimental 
      manipulations within these systems will further contribute to our understanding 
      of the processes shaping microbial biogeography.
FAU - Sommers, Pacifica
AU  - Sommers P
AD  - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, 
      Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
FAU - Porazinska, Dorota L
AU  - Porazinska DL
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0493-9926
AD  - Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 
      32611, USA.
FAU - Darcy, John L
AU  - Darcy JL
AD  - Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of 
      Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
FAU - Gendron, Eli M S
AU  - Gendron EMS
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2552-4658
AD  - Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 
      32611, USA.
FAU - Vimercati, Lara
AU  - Vimercati L
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8228-7786
AD  - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, 
      Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
FAU - Solon, Adam J
AU  - Solon AJ
AD  - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, 
      Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
FAU - Schmidt, Steven K
AU  - Schmidt SK
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9175-2085
AD  - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, 
      Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
LA  - eng
GR  - 1443578/National Science Foundation/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20201107
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Microorganisms
JT  - Microorganisms
JID - 101625893
PMC - PMC7694949
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Antarctica
OT  - ISAR
OT  - bacteria
OT  - biogeography
OT  - cryoconite
OT  - eukaryotes
OT  - glacier
OT  - species-area relationship
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the 
      design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in 
      the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.
EDAT- 2020/11/12 06:00
MHDA- 2020/11/12 06:01
PMCR- 2020/11/07
CRDT- 2020/11/11 01:01
PHST- 2020/10/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/10/31 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/11/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/11/11 01:01 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/11/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/11/12 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2020/11/07 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - microorganisms8111747 [pii]
AID - microorganisms-08-01747 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/microorganisms8111747 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Microorganisms. 2020 Nov 7;8(11):1747. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8111747.