Moisture and material shape microbial communities in the built environment through disturbance–productivity relationships

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SUPPLEMENTAL FIGURES SupplementalFiguresS1-S3.pdfInteractiveStats.htmlInteractiveNetworks.html RAW DATA, METADATA WITH BARCODES, QIIME2 NOTEBOOK NanniniEtAl_16S_metadata.tsvNanniniEtAl_ITS_metadata.tsvNanniniEtAl_16S_forward.fasta.gzNanniniEtAl_ITS_forward.fasta.gzQiime_Analysis.ipynb PROCESSED DATA: Includes feature count table for sequence variants, taxonomic identification, and sequences. 16S_combined_features_taxon_sequences.csvITS_combined_features_taxon_sequences.csv METADATA WITH MICROBIAL COUNTS metadata_and_counts.csv DATA ANALYSIS NOTEBOOK AND FILES NanniniEtAl_manuscript_analysis.Rmdmetadata_and_counts.csv16S-features.tsvclean_16Stable.tsvitsfeaturetable.tsvclean_ITStable.tsv ABSTRACT The built environment houses diverse microbial communities whose diversity and composition differ among building materials and environmental conditions. Ecological theory makes predictions about how productivity and diversity shape communities, and experiments in the built environment provide an opportunity to test these. We manipulated moisture (constant or repeated wet–dry cycling) on three common building materials to test predictions about alpha and beta diversity. The most productive material (oriented strand board) supported the highest bacterial alpha and beta diversity, and these diversity levels were reduced by repeated drying disturbances. Diversity patterns for fungi were more variable, with the highest alpha diversity on low–moderate productivity material (gypsum wallboard). Fungal beta diversity was reduced by disturbance on high productivity material but increased on the other materials. These patterns were driven largely by members of Bacillaceae, Sphingomonadaceae, and Aspergillaceae that reached high abundances in some treatments. Differences between bacteria and fungi may be due to the scale-dependence of productivity–diversity relationships. Network analysis found evidence of multi-species complexes of bacteria and fungi known to form biofilms, as well as evidence of competitive exclusion on specific materials and conditions. Together, these results indicate that disturbances can interact with building materials, and that these disturbances may be strongly mediated by biotic interactions.

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