Through the eDNA looking glass: Responses of fjord benthic foraminiferal communities to contrasting environmental conditions
Brinkmann, Inda LU
; Schweizer, Magali
; Singer, David
; Quinchard, Sophie
; Barras, Christine
; Bernhard, Joan M.
and Filipsson, Helena L.
LU
(2023)
In Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
70(4).
- Abstract
The health of coastal marine environments is severely declining with global changes. Proxies, such as those based on microeukaryote communities, can record biodiversity and ecosystem responses. However, conventional studies rely on microscopic observations of limited taxonomic range and size fraction, missing putatively ecologically informative community components. Here, we tested molecular tools to survey foraminiferal biodiversity in a fjord system (Sweden) on spatial and temporal scales: Alpha and beta diversity responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental trends were assessed and variability of foraminiferal environmental DNA (eDNA) compared to morphology-based data. The identification of eDNA-obtained taxonomic units was... (More)
The health of coastal marine environments is severely declining with global changes. Proxies, such as those based on microeukaryote communities, can record biodiversity and ecosystem responses. However, conventional studies rely on microscopic observations of limited taxonomic range and size fraction, missing putatively ecologically informative community components. Here, we tested molecular tools to survey foraminiferal biodiversity in a fjord system (Sweden) on spatial and temporal scales: Alpha and beta diversity responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental trends were assessed and variability of foraminiferal environmental DNA (eDNA) compared to morphology-based data. The identification of eDNA-obtained taxonomic units was aided by single-cell barcoding. Our study revealed wide diversity, including typical morphospecies recognized in the fjords, and so-far unrecognized taxa. DNA extraction method impacted community composition outputs significantly. DNA extractions of 10 g sediment more reliably represented present diversity than of 0.5-g samples and, thus, are preferred for environmental assessments in this region. Alpha- and beta diversity of 10-g extracts correlated with bottom-water salinity similar to morpho-assemblage diversity changes. Sub-annual environmental variability resolved only partially, indicating damped sensitivity of foraminiferal communities on short timescales using established metabarcoding techniques. Systematically addressing the current limitations of morphology-based and metabarcoding studies may strongly improve future biodiversity and environmental assessments.
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- author
- Brinkmann, Inda
LU
; Schweizer, Magali
; Singer, David
; Quinchard, Sophie
; Barras, Christine
; Bernhard, Joan M.
and Filipsson, Helena L.
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- barcoding, biodiversity, coastal ecosystems, environmental DNA, foraminifera, hypoxia, metabarcoding
- in
- Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
- volume
- 70
- issue
- 4
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85152359166
- pmid:36972021
- ISSN
- 1066-5234
- DOI
- 10.1111/jeu.12975
- project
- Tracing past bottom water oxygenation in the sea: a microanalytical approach to improve calcium carbonate based proxies (TOPICaL)
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Funding Information: We acknowledge funding from the Swedish Research Council VR (grant number 2017‐04190), the Crafoord Foundation, and the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden. JMB's participation was supported by the at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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title = {{Through the eDNA looking glass: Responses of fjord benthic foraminiferal communities to contrasting environmental conditions}},
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