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The remote Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles, provides the rare opportunity to study bacterial communities in pristine carbonate sediments across an entire biome. The four sampled sites cover sand with high porewater exchange, bioturbated silt and mud with intermediate exchange, as well as a seasonally and episodically desiccated landlocked pool. As sediments harbour dead cells and environmental DNA alongside live cells, we used bacterial 16S rRNA gene and transcript analysis to distinguish between past and present inhabitants. Previously described laminated sediments mirroring past conditions in the Cerin, France could not be retrieved. Thus, the aim was adjusted to determine whether bacterial community composition and diversity follow typical geochemical zonation patterns at different locations of the atoll. Our data confirm previous observations that diversity decreases with depth. In the lagoon, the bacterial community composition changed from  Pseudomonas  dominating in the sand to diverse mixed surface and sulphate reduction zones in the anaerobic mud with strongly negative Eh. The latter correlated with high total alkalinity, ammonia, and total sulphide, alongside a decrease in SO 4  2− /Cl −  and high relative abundances of sulphate reducing ( Halo-) Desulfovibrio , sulphur oxidizing  Arcobacteraceae , photo(hetero)troph  Cyanobacteria ,  Alphaproteobacteria , and fermenting  Propionigenium . In contrast to expectations, deeper mud and pool sediments harboured high abundances of  Halomonas  or  Alphaproteobacteria  alongside high C/N and increased salinity. We believe that this atypical community shift may be driven by a change in the complexity of available organic matter.

DNA- and RNA-based bacterial communities and geochemical zonation under changing sediment porewater dynamics on the Aldabra Atoll