title: Interaction between resource identity and bacterial community composition regulates bacterial respiration in aquatic ecosystems.
abstract: Resource identity and composition structure bacterial community, which in turn determines the magnitude of bacterial processes and ecological services. However, the complex interaction between resource identity and bacterial community composition (BCC) has been poorly understood so far. Using aquatic microcosms, we tested whether and how resource identity interacts with BCC in regulating bacterial respiration and bacterial functional diversity. Different aquatic macrophyte leachates were used as different carbon resources while BCC was manipulated through successional changes of bacterial populations in batch cultures. We observed that the same BCC treatment respired differently on each carbon resource; these resources also supported different amounts of bacterial functional diversity. There was no clear linear pattern of bacterial respiration in relation to time succession of bacterial communities in all leachates, i.e. differences on bacterial respiration between different BCC were rather idiosyncratic. Resource identity regulated the magnitude of respiration of each BCC, e.g. Ultricularia foliosa leachate sustained the greatest bacterial functional diversity and lowest rates of bacterial respiration in all BCC. We conclude that both resource identity and the BCC interact affecting the pattern and the magnitude of bacterial respiration in aquatic ecosystems.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: A P F
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Pires
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caliman
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laque
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Esteves
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: V F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Farjalla
mesh_terms: D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D001938:Brazil; D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism*; D017753:Ecosystem; D064307:Microbiota; D014329:Tropical Climate
chemical_list: D002244:Carbon