ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018
Direct and Indirect Effects of Penguin Feces on Microbiomes in Antarctic Ornithogenic Soils.
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- The influence of seabirds on their breeding, roosting and nesting grounds: A systematic review and meta-analysis.The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Pooled it
- Psychrotolerant Erwinia psychrophila sp. nov. and Erwinia magellanica sp. nov. Isolated from Penguin Faeces.Current microbiology · 2025Article
- The Establishment of a Terrestrial Macroalga Canopy Impacts Microbial Soil Communities in Antarctica.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Bacterial community composition and function in different habitats in Antarctic Fildes region revealed by high-throughput sequencing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- From acidophilic to ornithogenic: microbial community dynamics in moss banks altered by gentoo penguins.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- The Vestfold Hills are alive: characterising microbial and environmental dynamics in Old Wallow, eastern Antarctica.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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- Soil Geochemical Properties Influencing the Diversity of Bacteria and Archaea in Soils of the Kitezh Lake Area, Antarctica.Biology · 2022Article
- Marine Vertebrates Impact the Bacterial Community Composition and Food Webs of Antarctic Microbial Mats.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Source and acquisition of rhizosphere microbes in Antarctic vascular plants.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Fungal diversity in the coastal waters of King George Island (maritime Antarctica).World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2021Article
- Insight Into Ecology, Metabolic Potential, and the Taxonomic Composition of Bacterial Communities in the Periodic Water Pond on King George Island (Antarctica).Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Faunal input at host plants: Can camel thorn trees use nutrients imported by resident sociable weavers?Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
Expansion of penguin activity in maritime Antarctica, under ice thaw, increases the chances of penguin feces affecting soil microbiomes. The detail of such effects begins to be revealed. By comparing soil geochemistry and microbiome composition inside (one site) and outside (three sites) of the rookery, we found significant effects of penguin feces on both. First, penguin feces change soil geochemistry, causing increased moisture content (MC) of ornithogenic soils and nutrients C, N, P, and Si in the rookery compared to non-rookery sites, but not pH. Second, penguin feces directly affect microbiome composition in the rookery, not those outside. Specifically, we found 4,364 operational taxonomical units (OTUs) in 404 genera in six main phyla: Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi, and Bacteroidetes. Although the diversity is similar among the four sites, the composition is different. For example, penguin rookery has a lower abundance of Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi, and Nitrospirae but a higher abundance of Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Thermomicrobia. Strikingly, the family Clostridiaceae of Firmicutes of penguin-feces origin is most abundant in the rookery than non-rookery sites with two most abundant genera,
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