FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Coupling between taxonomic and functional diversity in protistan coastal communities BT AF Ramond, Pierre Sourisseau, Marc Simon, Nathalie Romac, Sarah Schmitt, Sophie Rigaut-Jalabert, Fabienne Henry, Nicolas de Vargas, Colomban Siano, Raffaele AS 1:1,2;2:2;3:1;4:1;5:2;6:3;7:1;8:1;9:1,2; FF 1:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;2:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;3:;4:;5:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;6:;7:;8:;9:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS; C1 Sorbonne Université, CNRS - UMR7144 - Station Biologique de Roscoff; Place Georges Teissier, 29688 Roscoff ,FRANCE Dyneco Pelagos, IFREMER; BP 70, 29280 Plouzané ,France Sorbonne Université, CNRS - FR2424, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier; 29688 Roscoff ,FRANCE C2 UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 4.933 TC 41 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00478/58964/61554.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00478/58964/61555.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00478/58964/61556.pdf LA English DT Article CR M2BIPAT LEG1 M2BIPAT LEG2 PELGAS BO Côtes De La Manche AB The study of protistan functional diversity is crucial to understand the dynamics of oceanic ecological processes. We combined the metabarcoding data of various coastal ecosystems and a newly developed trait‐based approach to study the link between taxonomic and functional diversity across marine protistan communities of different size‐classes. Environmental DNA was extracted and the V4 18S rDNA genomic region was amplified and sequenced. In parallel, we tried to annotate the Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) from our metabarcoding dataset to 30 biological traits using published and accessible information on protists. We then developed a method to study trait correlations across protists (i.e. trade‐offs) in order to build the best functional groups. Based on the annotated OTUs and our functional groups, we demonstrated that the functional diversity of marine protist communities varied in parallel with their taxonomic diversity. The coupling between functional and taxonomic diversity was conserved across different protist size classes. However, the smallest size‐fraction was characterized by wider taxonomic and functional groups diversity, corroborating the idea that nano‐ and pico‐plankton are part of a more stable ecological background on which larger protists and metazoans might develop. PY 2019 PD FEB SO Environmental Microbiology SN 1462-2912 PU Wiley VL 21 IS 2 UT 000459172700016 BP 730 EP 749 DI 10.1111/1462-2920.14537 ID 58964 ER EF