Metabarcoding inventory of an arctic tundra soil ecosystem reveals highly heterogeneous communities at a small scale

Author:

Jorna JesseORCID,Vandenbrink Bryan,Hogg Ian D.,Wall Diana H.,Adams Byron J.

Abstract

AbstractBiodiversity surveys of Arctic soil ecosystems are limited. Here, we provide a sequence-based inventory of soil fauna from an Arctic tundra ecosystem near the Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Invertebrate communities were extracted at a vegetated and non-vegetated site in three replicates and inventoried using 18S metabarcode sequencing. A total of 361 amplicon sequence variants (ASV) were identified and assigned to the closest matching taxonomic orders, most of which belonged to the Nematoda and Arthropoda. Vegetated soils showed no significantly higher ASV richness relative to non-vegetated soils although they contained a significantly higher diversity of arthropod taxa including insects, mites, and springtails. Most taxa were found only at a single location and even samples from the same site displayed distinct communities, suggesting that belowground species richness in Arctic tundra habitats is highly heterogeneous. Preserving soil biodiversity in a changing Arctic is essential for Inuit communities who rely on intact tundra ecosystems for their health and wellbeing.

Funder

Polar Knowledge Canada

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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