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ArticleEnvironmental microbiology reports2024

Leafcutter ants enhance microbial drought resilience in tropical forest soil.

Hannah B Shulman, Emma L Aronson, Diego Dierick, Andrian A Pinto-Tomás, Jon K Botthoff, Allan Artavia-León, Michael F Allen

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Article in Environmental microbiology reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Hannah B ShulmanDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9959-9417
Emma L AronsonDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.
Diego DierickDepartment of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
Andrian A Pinto-TomásCentro De Investigación En Estructuras Microscópicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Jon K BotthoffCenter for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.
Allan Artavia-LeónCentro De Investigación En Estructuras Microscópicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Michael F AllenDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.

Funding

Directorate for Biological Sciences 1624623
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We conducted a research campaign in a neotropical rainforest in Costa Rica throughout the drought phase of an El-Nino Southern Oscillation event to determine microbial community dynamics and soil C fluxes. Our study included nests of the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes, as soil disturbances made by these ecosystem engineers may influence microbial drought response. Drought decreased the diversity of microbes and the abundance of core microbiome taxa, including Verrucomicrobial bacteria and Sordariomycete fungi. Despite initial responses of decreasing diversity and altered composition, 6 months post-drought the microbiomes were similar to pre-drought conditions, demonstrating the resilience of soil microbial communities to drought events. A. cephalotes nests altered fungal composition in the surrounding soil, and reduced both fungal mortality and growth of Acidobacteria post-drought. Drought increased CH

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AntsBacteriaDroughtsFungiMicrobiotaRainforestSoil MicrobiologyTropical ClimateAnimalsCosta RicaForestsSoilSoil

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