Environmental vulnerability of the global ocean epipelagic plankton community interactome
This article is contribution number 120 of Tara Oceans.-- 15 pages, 4 figures, supplementary materials https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.1126/sciadv.abg1921/suppl_file/sciadv.abg1921_SM.pdf.-- Data and materials availability: Data described here are available at the EBI under the project identifiers PRJEB402 and PRJEB7988 and at PANGAEA (96). All data (raw abundance matrices and interactome graphML files) needed to evaluate the conclusions of the paper are available in the Supplementary Materials. A web server for exploring and searching the global ocean interactome is available at https://saas.ls2n.fr/Tara-Oceans-interactome/ ; Marine plankton form complex communities of interacting organisms at the base of the food web, which sustain oceanic biogeochemical cycles and help regulate climate. Although global surveys are starting to reveal ecological drivers underlying planktonic community structure and predicted climate change responses, it is unclear how community-scale species interactions will be affected by climate change. Here, we leveraged Tara Oceans sampling to infer a global ocean cross-domain plankton co-occurrence network—the community interactome—and used niche modeling to assess its vulnerabilities to environmental change. Globally, this revealed a plankton interactome self-organized latitudinally into marine biomes (Trades, Westerlies, Polar) and more connected poleward. Integrated niche modeling revealed biome-specific community interactome responses to environmental change and forecasted the most affected lineages for each community. These results provide baseline approaches to assess community structure and organismal interactions under climate scenarios while identifying plausible plankton bioindicators for ocean monitoring of climate change ; We further thank the commitment of the following sponsors: CNRS (in particular Groupement de Recherche GDR3280 and the Research Federation for the study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans-GOSEE), European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genoscope/CEA, the French Ministry of Research, the French Government "Investissements d'Avenir" programmes OCEANOMICS (ANR-11-BTBR-0008), FRANCE GENOMIQUE (ANR-10-INBS-09-08), MEMO LIFE (ANR-10-LABX-54), PSL* Research University (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02), ETH and the Helmut Horten Foundation, MEXT/JSPS/KAKENHI (projects 16H06429, 16K21723, 16H06437, and 18H02279), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (project MAGGY-CTM2017-87736-R), ERC Advanced Award Diatomic (grant agreement 835067 to CB), the CNRS MITI through the interdisciplinary program Modélisation du Vivant (GOBITMAP grant to SC), and the H2020 European Commission project AtlantECO (award number 862923). […]. E.D. is supported by the RFI ATLANSTIC2020 grant (PROBIOSTIC grant to DE). M.Bu. received financial support from the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) as part of the "Ocean Plankton, Climate and Development" project. P.C.J. was supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP (PhD grant 2017/26786-1). H.S. is supported by a Brazilian Research Council (CNPq) productivity grant (process 309514/2017-7) and FAPESP (grant 2014/14139-3). […] Additional funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council (NSERC) Canada Discovery program is gratefully acknowledged. ; With the institutional support of the 'Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence' accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S) ; Peer reviewed