Electron donor-driven bacterial and archaeal community patterns along forest ring edges in Ontario, Canada

Environmental Microbiology Reports
Konstantin von GuntenDaniel S Alessi

Abstract

Forest rings are 50-1600 m diameter circular structures found in boreal forests around the globe. They are believed to be chemically reducing chimney features, having an accumulation of reduced species in the middle of the ring and oxidation processes occurring at the ring's edges. It has been suggested that microorganisms could be responsible for charge transfer from the inside to the outside of the ring. To explore this, we focused on the changes in bacterial and archaeal communities in the ring edges of two forest rings, the 'Bean' and the 'Thorn North' ring, in proximity to each other in Ontario, Canada. The drier samples from the methane-sourced Bean ring were characterized by the abundance of bacteria from the classes Deltaproteobacteria and Gemmatimonadetes. Geobacter spp. and methanotrophs, such as Candidatus Methylomirabilis and Methylobacter, were highly abundant in these samples. The Thorn North ring, centred on an H2 S accumulation in groundwater, had wetter samples and its communities were dominated by the classes Alphaproteobacteria and Anaerolineae. This ring's microbial communities showed an overall higher microbial diversity supported by higher available free energy. For both rings, the species diversity was hi...Continue Reading

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