Use of a logging road in a Costa Rican forest changes the composition and stability of soil microbial decomposer communities, and the conversion of organic carbon into biomass
The logging road negatively influenced 3 decomposer communities and associated C and N metrics, with the two bacterial communities taxonomically stabilizing, but the fungal community taxonomically diverging into an unstable composition over time. Monitoring efforts are on-going to provide local forest land managers with potential indicators of soil ecosystem damage and recovery.
Authors
- William D. Eaton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6596-0331)
- Patricia Soteropoulos
- Katie M. McGee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4548-5411)
- Alexander Lemenze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3053-0849)
- Ava Glahn
Institutions
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Pace University (US)
- University for Peace (CR)
- Stantec (United States) (US)
- Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (US)
- Stantec (Canada) (CA)
- University of Guelph (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Applied Microbiology
- Published
- 2025-03-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jambio/lxaf075
- Primary Topic
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00