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Insight into the bacterial community composition of the plastisphere in diverse environments of a coastal salt marsh

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Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Feng Yuan, Xinqing Zou Hongyu Chen, Hongyu Chen, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Teng Wang, Teng Wang, Teng Wang, Teng Wang, Teng Wang, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yue Xue, Teng Wang, Teng Wang, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yue Xue, Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Qihang Liao, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Qihang Liao, Hongyu Chen, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Hongyu Chen, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Teng Wang, Ming Lü, Yongcheng Ding, Xinqing Zou Teng Wang, Teng Wang, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Qihang Liao, Hongyu Chen, Qihang Liao, Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Qihang Liao, Qihang Liao, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yuyang Song, Xinqing Zou Guanghe Fu, Yongcheng Ding, Hexi Zhang, Teng Wang, Hexi Zhang, Hongyu Chen, Yongcheng Ding, Teng Wang, Qihang Liao, Teng Wang, Yuyang Song, Qihang Liao, Yongcheng Ding, Guanghe Fu, Hexi Zhang, Hexi Zhang, Yue Xue, Yue Xue, Teng Wang, Hongyu Chen, Teng Wang, Yue Xue, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yue Xue, Teng Wang, Qihang Liao, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Hongyu Chen, Hongyu Chen, Qihang Liao, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Guanghe Fu, Xinqing Zou Teng Wang, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Yongcheng Ding, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Yuyang Song, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Ming Lü, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Yuyang Song, Guanghe Fu, Yuyang Song, Xinqing Zou Guanghe Fu, Yongcheng Ding, Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Yongcheng Ding, Teng Wang, Yuyang Song, Guanghe Fu, Teng Wang, Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Xinqing Zou Guanghe Fu, Teng Wang, Xinqing Zou Guanghe Fu, Guanghe Fu, Xinqing Zou

Summary

Researchers conducted a year-long field experiment examining microbial communities that colonize different types of microplastics in a Chinese coastal salt marsh across three distinct habitat zones. They found that the type of plastic polymer and the surrounding environment both significantly influenced the composition of the bacterial communities growing on the plastic surfaces. The study reveals that bio-based plastics like polylactic acid harbored distinctly different microbial communities compared to petroleum-based plastics like polyethylene.

Polymers

PA PE PLA PS

Study Type Environmental

The microbial community colonized on microplastics (MPs), known as the 'plastisphere', has attracted extensive concern owing to its environmental implications. Coastal salt marshes, which are crucial ecological assets, are considered sinks for MPs. Despite their strong spatial heterogeneity, there is limited information on plastisphere across diverse environments in coastal salt marshes. Herein, a 1-year field experiment was conducted at three sites in the Yancheng salt marsh in China. This included two sites in the intertidal zone, bare flat (BF) and Spartina alterniflora vegetation area (SA), and one site in the supratidal zone, Phragmites australis vegetation area (PA). Petroleum-based MPs (polyethylene and expanded polystyrene) and bio-based MPs (polylactic acid and polybutylene succinate) were employed. The results revealed significant differences in bacterial community composition between the plastisphere and sediment at all three sites examined, and the species enriched in the plastisphere exhibited location-specific characteristics. Overall, the largest difference was observed at the SA site, whereas the smallest difference was observed at the BF site. Furthermore, the MP polymer types influenced the composition of the bacterial communities in the plastisphere, also exhibiting location-specific characteristics, with the most pronounced impact observed at the PA site and the least at the BF site. The polybutylene succinate plastisphere bacterial communities at the SA and PA sites were quite different from the plastispheres from the other three MP polymer types. Co-occurrence network analyses suggested that the bacterial community network in the BF plastisphere exhibited the highest complexity, whereas the network in the SA plastisphere showed relatively sparse interactions. Null model analyses underscored the predominant role of deterministic processes in shaping the assembly of plastisphere bacterial communities across all three sites, with a more pronounced influence observed in the intertidal zone than in the supratidal zone. This study enriches our understanding of the plastisphere in coastal salt marshes.

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