More Robust Co-Occurrence Patterns and Stronger Dispersal Limitations of Bacterial Communities in Wet than Dry Seasons of Riparian Wetlands

Abstract

Riparian wetlands comprise microbial communities that are easily affected by the surrounding conditions, especially in agricultural landscapes with a wide range of ecosystem services. After comparing the wet and dry season microbiota, we found that the soil bacterial community of the wet season exhibited a higher complexity and stability of soil bacterial network and stronger dispersal limitations than that of the dry season; however, the dry season bacteria showed stronger homogeneous selection than the wet season bacteria.