Microbiome and environment explain the absence of correlations between consumers and their diet in Bornean microsnails

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dc.citation.issue2
dc.citation.volume102
dc.contributor.authorHendriks KP
dc.contributor.authorBisschop K
dc.contributor.authorKortenbosch HH
dc.contributor.authorKavanagh JC
dc.contributor.authorLarue AEA
dc.contributor.authorChee-Chean P
dc.contributor.authorBonte D
dc.contributor.authorDuijm EJ
dc.contributor.authorSalles JF
dc.contributor.authorPigot AL
dc.contributor.authorRichter Mendoza FJ
dc.contributor.authorSchilthuizen M
dc.contributor.authorAnderson MJ
dc.contributor.authorSpeksnijder AGCL
dc.contributor.authorEtienne RS
dc.coverage.spatialUnited States
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-15T01:22:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-25T06:43:03Z
dc.date.available2021-01-18
dc.date.available2023-12-15T01:22:44Z
dc.date.available2024-07-25T06:43:03Z
dc.date.issued2021-02
dc.description.abstractClassical ecological theory posits that species partition resources such that each species occupies a unique resource niche. In general, the availability of more resources allows more species to co-occur. Thus, a strong relationship between communities of consumers and their resources is expected. However, correlations may be influenced by other layers in the food web, or by the environment. Here we show, by studying the relationship between communities of consumers (land snails) and individual diets (from seed plants), that there is in fact no direct, or at most a weak but negative, relationship. However, we found that the diversity of the individual microbiome positively correlates with both consumer community diversity and individual diet diversity in three target species. Moreover, these correlations were affected by various environmental variables, such as anthropogenic activity, habitat island size, and a possibly important nutrient source, guano runoff from nearby caves. Our results suggest that the microbiome and the environment explain the absence of correlations between diet and consumer community diversity. Hence, we advocate that microbiome inventories are routinely added to any community dietary analysis, which our study shows can be done with relatively little extra effort. Our approach presents the tools to quickly obtain an overview of the relationships between consumers and their resources. We anticipate our approach to be useful for ecologists and environmentalists studying different communities in a local food web.
dc.format.paginatione03237-
dc.identifier.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33098661
dc.identifier.citationHendriks KP, Bisschop K, Kortenbosch HH, Kavanagh JC, Larue AEA, Chee-Chean P, Bonte D, Duijm EJ, Salles JF, Pigot AL, Richter Mendoza FJ, Schilthuizen M, Anderson MJ, Speksnijder AGCL, Etienne RS. (2021). Microbiome and environment explain the absence of correlations between consumers and their diet in Bornean microsnails.. Ecology. 102. 2. (pp. e03237-).
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ecy.3237
dc.identifier.eissn1939-9170
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn0012-9658
dc.identifier.numberARTN e03237
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/70737
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Ecological Society of America
dc.relation.isPartOfEcology
dc.rightsThe author/sen
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-NDen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.enen
dc.subjectBorneo
dc.subjectGastropoda
dc.subjectcommunity ecology
dc.subjectdiet
dc.subjectmetabarcoding
dc.subjectmicrobiome
dc.subjectDiet
dc.subjectEcosystem
dc.subjectFood Chain
dc.subjectMicrobiota
dc.titleMicrobiome and environment explain the absence of correlations between consumers and their diet in Bornean microsnails
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id438465
pubs.organisational-groupOther
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