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Photosynthetic microorganisms effectively contribute to bryophyte CO2 fixation in boreal and tropical regions

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Photosynthetic microbes are omnipresent in land and water. While they critically influence primary productivity in aquatic systems, their importance in terrestrial ecosystems remains largely overlooked. In terrestrial systems, photoautotrophs occur in a variety of habitats, such as sub-surface soils, exposed rocks, and bryophytes. Here, we study photosynthetic microbial communities associated with bryophytes from a boreal peatland and a tropical rainforest. We interrogate their contribution to bryophyte C uptake and identify the main drivers of that contribution. We found that photosynthetic microbes take up twice more C in the boreal peatland (~4.4 mg CO 2 .h −1 .m −2) than in the tropical rainforest (~2.4 mg CO 2 .h −1 .m −2), which corresponded to an average contribution of 4% and 2% of the bryophyte C uptake, respectively. Our findings revealed that such patterns were driven by the proportion of photosynthetic protists in the moss microbiomes. Low moss water content and light conditions were not favourable to the development of photosynthetic protists in the tropical rainforest, which indirectly reduced the overall photosynthetic microbial C uptake. Our investigations clearly show that photosynthetic microbes associated with bryophyte effectively contribute to moss C uptake despite species turnover. Terrestrial photosynthetic microbes clearly have the capacity to take up atmospheric C in bryophytes living under various environmental conditions, and therefore potentially support rates of ecosystem-level net C exchanges with the atmosphere.
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hal-03792858 , version 1 (30-09-2022)

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Vincent E J Jassey, Samuel Hamard, Cécile Lepère, Régis Céréghino, Bruno Corbara, et al.. Photosynthetic microorganisms effectively contribute to bryophyte CO2 fixation in boreal and tropical regions. ISME Communications, 2022, 2, pp.64. ⟨10.1038/s43705-022-00149-w⟩. ⟨hal-03792858⟩
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