Abstract
In the Narębski Point area of King George Island of Antarctica, ornithogenic soils form on land under Chinstrap and Gentoo Penguin rookeries. The purpose of this study was to compare the bacterial community compositions in the gradient of contamination by penguin feces; mineral soil with no contamination, and soils with medium or high contamination. The discrimination between mineral soils and ornithogenic soils by characterization of physicochemical properties and bacterial communities was notable. Physicochemical analyses of soil properties showed enrichment of carbon and nitrogen in ornithogenic soils. Firmicutes were present abundantly in active ornithogenic soils, Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria in a formerly active one, and several diverse phyla such as Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Acidobacteria in mineral soils. Some predominant species belonging to the Firmicutes and Gammaproteobacteria may play an important role for the mineralization of nutrients in ornithogenic soils. Results of this study indicate that dominant species may play an important role in mineralization of nutrients in these ecosystems.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Aislabie, J., Jordan, S., Ayton, J., Klassen, J.L., Barker, G.M., and Turner, S. 2009. Bacterial diversity associated with ornithogenic soil of the Ross Sea region, Antarctica. Can. J. Microbiol.55, 21–36.
Barrett, J.E., Virginia, R.A., Parsons, A.N., and Wall, D.H. 2006. Soil carbon turnover in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Soil Biol. Biochem.38, 3065–3082.
Bowman, J.P., Joanne, C., Austin, J.J., and Sanderson, K. 1996. Novel Psychrobacter species from Antarctic ornighogenic soils. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.46, 841–848.
Cary, S.C., McDonald, I.R., Barrett, J.E., and Cowan, D.A. 2010. On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils. Nat. Rev. Microbiol.8, 129–138.
Edgar, R.C., Haas, B.J., Clemente, J.C., Quince, C., and Knight, R. 2011. UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection. Bioinformatics27, 2194–2200.
Gihring, T.M., Green, S.J., and Schadt, C.W. 2012. Massively parallel rRNA gene sequencing exacerbates the potential for biased community diversity comparisons due to variable library sizes. Environ. Microbiol.14, 285–290.
González, I., Déjean, S., Martin, P.G.P., and Baccini, A. 2008. CCA: An R package to extend canonical correlation analysis. J. Stat. Softw.23, 1–14.
Gupta, P., Reddy, G.S., Delille, D., and Shivaji, S. 2004. Arthrobacter gangotriensis sp. nov. and Arthrobacter kerguelensis sp. nov. from Antarctica. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.54, 2375–2378.
Kim, O.-S., Cho, Y.J., Lee, K., Yoon, S.H., Kim, M., Na, H., Park, S.C., Jeon, Y.S., Lee, J.H., Yi, H., andet al. 2012. Introducing EzTaxon-e: a prokaryotic 16S rRNA gene sequence database with phylotypes that represent uncultured species. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.62, 716–721.
Lee, J.-H., Yi, H., Jeon, Y.-S., Won, S., and Chun, J. 2012. TBC: A clustering algorithm based on prokaryotic taxonomy. J. Microbiol.50, 181–185.
Lu, J., Domingo, J.W.S., Lamendella, R., Edge, T., and Hill, S. 2008. Phylogenetic diversity and molecular detection of bacteria in gull feces. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.74, 3969–3976.
Na, H., Kim, O.-S., Yoon, S.-H., Kim, Y., and Chun, J. 2011. Comparative approach to capture bacterial diversity of coastal waters. J. Microbiol.49, 729–740.
Niederberger, T.D., McDonald, I.R., Hacker, A.L., Soo, R.M., Barrett, J.E., Wall, D.H., and Cary, S.C. 2008. Microbial community composition in soils of norther Victoria Land, Antarctica. Environ. Microbiol.10, 1713–1724.
Oh, J., Kim, B.K., Cho, W.-S., Hong, S.G., and Kim, K.M. 2012. PyroTrimmer: a software with GUI for pre-processing 454 amplicon sequences. J. Microbiol.50, 766–769.
Schloss, P.D., Westcott, S.L., Ryabin, T., Hall, J.R., Hartmann, M., Hollister, E.B., Lesniewski, R.A., Oakley, B.B., Parks, D.H., Robinson, C.J., andet al. 2009. Introducing mothur: open-source, platform-independent, community-supported software for describing and comparing microbial communities. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.75, 7537–7541.
Scupham, A.J. 2007. Examination of the microbial ecology of the avian intestine in vivo using bromodeoxyuridine. Environ. Microbiol.9, 1801–1809.
Simas, F., Schaefer, C., Melo, V.F., Albuquerque-Filho, M.R., Michel, R., Pereira, V., Gomes, M., and Costa, L. 2007. Ornithogenic cryosols from maritime Antarctica: phosphatization as a soil forming process. Geoderma138, 191–203.
Smith, J.L., Barrett, J.E., Tusnády, G., Rejtö, L., and Cary, S.C. 2010. Resolving environmental drivers of microbial community structure in Antarctic soils. Antarctic Science22, 673–680.
Sun, L., Zhu, R., Zie, Z., and ** deposition. Atmos. Environ.36, 4977–4982.
Ugolini, F.C. 1970. Antarctic soils and their ecology. Academic Press, London.
Zdanowski, M.K., Zmuda, M.J., and Zwolska, I. 2005. Bacterial role in the decomposition of marine-derived material (penguin guano) in the terrestrial maritime Antarctic. Soil Biol. Biochem.37, 581–595.
Zhu, R., Liu, Y., Ma, E., Sun, J., Xu, H., and Sun, L. 2009. Nutrient compositions and potential greenhouse gas production in penguin guano, ornithogenic soils and seal colony soils in coastal Antarctica. Antarctic Science21, 427–438.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://www.springer.com/content/120956.
Electronic supplementary material
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Kim, OS., Chae, N., Lim, H.S. et al. Bacterial diversity in ornithogenic soils compared to mineral soils on King George Island, Antarctica. J Microbiol. 50, 1081–1085 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-012-2655-7
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-012-2655-7