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Mechanisms Driving the Distribution and Activity of Mineralization and Nitrification in the Reservoir Riparian Zone

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The riparian zone ecosystems have greater energy flow and elemental cycling than adjacent terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Mineralization and nitrification are important initiating processes in the nitrogen cycle, but their distribution and activity under different environmental conditions in the riparian zone and the driving mechanisms are still not clear. We investigated the effects of environmental and microbial factors on mineralization and nitrification activities by analyzing the community of alkaline (apr) and neutral (npr) metallopeptidase, ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), and bacteria (AOB) in soils and sediments under different land-use types in the riparian zone of Miyun Reservoir, as well as measuring potential nitrogen mineralization and ammonia oxidation rates (AOR). The results showed that the mineralization and nitrification activities of soils were greater than those of sediments. AOA and AOB dominate the ammonia oxidation activity of soil and sediment, respectively. NH4+ content was a key factor influencing the ecological niche differentiation between AOA and AOB. The high carbon and nitrogen content of the woodland significantly increased mineralization and nitrification activity. Microbial communities were significantly clustered in the woodland. The land-use type, not the flooding condition, determined the distribution of microbial community structure. The diversity of npr was significantly correlated with potential N mineralization rates, while the transcript abundance of AOA was significantly correlated with ammonia oxidation rates. Our study suggests that environmental changes regulate the distribution and activity of mineralization and nitrification processes in the reservoir riparian zone by affecting the transcript abundance, diversity and community structure of the microbial functional genes.

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The raw sequence data reported in this study have been deposited in NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and the BioProject number was PRJNA 888,823, which is available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. The experiments were conducted by Tingting Li and Xia Wang. Xiaoyan Wang was responsible for funding acquisition, project supervision and management, conceptualization, and writing-review. The data were analyzed by Tingting Li, Jingyu Huang, and Lei Shen. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Tingting Li and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.

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Li, T., Wang, X., Wang, X. et al. Mechanisms Driving the Distribution and Activity of Mineralization and Nitrification in the Reservoir Riparian Zone. Microb Ecol 86, 1829–1846 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-023-02180-3

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