Andy N. Avelino-Perez

Environmental Drivers of Sediment Microbial Community Structure Across Restored, Altered, and Reference Mangroves in Las Calderas Bay, Dominican Republic

Mangrove reforestation is expanding across the Caribbean, but restoration success is still judged almost exclusively by tree survival and canopy cover. Whether the sediment microbiome, which governs carbon burial and nutrient cycling, follows the recovery of the vegetation remains largely unknown. We combined 16S rRNA...