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In total, 2,543 living cultures were obtained from 178 leaflets, 120 from litter bags, plus 58 taken fresh from the crown, of an individual Protium subserratum Burseraceae near Iquitos, Peru. P. subserratum is a mid-canopy tree that occurs throughout the basin, in various edaphic contexts-including nutrient-rich clay forests, as well as depauperate white sand forests known for their high endemism Fine et al. 2006. This broad geographic distribution and ecological amplitude makes characterizing the microbiome of P. subserratum an excellent starting-point in the effort to understand the diversity of symbiotrophic microbes in the lowland tropics. |