Composição taxonômica, funcional e molecular da microbiota planctônica: integrando diferentes níveis tróficos na ecologia aquática

The aquatic microbiota play an important role in the ecosystems functioning. However, the factors that are associated with the structuring of microbiological communities as well as their responses to climate change are still not well understood. In addition, most evaluations do not consider the effe...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Machado, Karine Borges
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.bc.ufg.br:tede/9756
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9756
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Aquecimento global
Fitoplâncton
Metacomunidades
Protistas
Global warming
Phytoplankton
Metacommunities
Protists
CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ECOLOGIA
Descripción
Sumario:The aquatic microbiota play an important role in the ecosystems functioning. However, the factors that are associated with the structuring of microbiological communities as well as their responses to climate change are still not well understood. In addition, most evaluations do not consider the effects on different trophic levels simultaneously. This study aimed to associate taxonomic, functional and molecular knowledge on aquatic microorganisms, seeking to investigate the causes of the diversity geographic patterns as well as their responses to global warming. This work was carried out using data from 27 lakes in the Araguaia river floodplain and also by the construction of an experiment in microcosm. We found that environmental and spatial factors do not influence planktonic microbiota 18S rDNA in the lakes evaluated, although there is a high beta diversity and the composition is spatially structured along the plain. On the other hand, we found that experimentally simulated warming promotes a change in the taxonomic and functional composition of planktonic organisms, due to a species substitution and a predominance of smaller organisms. Furthermore, the microbiota of different trophic levels presents a similar response pattern to warming. These results contribute to predict how different biological levels and trophic groups of the aquatic microbiota respond to variations in environmental conditions. We highlight that this approach is relevant, because changes in the composition of communities can affect many ecosystem processes and services.