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ArticleISME communications2025

Lost paradise-anthropogenic pressure alters microbial functional diversity in an endangered endemic toad-habitat system.

Philippe J R Kok, Magdalena Urbaniak

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Article in ISME communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Philippe J R KokDepartment of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Banacha 12/16, Łódź 97-237, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9743-9738
Magdalena UrbaniakFaculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, UNESCO Chair on Ecohydrology and Applied Ecology, University of Lodz, Banacha 12/16, Łódź 97-237, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5118-4530

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Abstract

Tourism-driven human activity is increasingly disrupting fragile and once-pristine ecosystems worldwide, as evidenced by coral reef degradation in the Great Barrier Reef, vegetation loss in the Himalayas, and, as demonstrated in this study, microbial shifts in isolated highland habitats such as tepui summits. Integrating field-based ecological, microbiological, and conservation perspectives, this study provides novel insights into how anthropogenic disturbance-particularly tourism-affects microbial functional diversity across interconnected environmental (soil) and host-associated (amphibian skin and faeces) compartments in a globally unique and poorly studied highland ecosystem, the summit of Roraima-tepui in Venezuela. Our results provide clear evidence that anthropogenic disturbance on the summit of Roraima-tepui reduces microbial functional diversity-by 59% in soil and by 21% and 14% in the skin and faecal microbiomes of the (near)endemic toad

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