Field-to-forest fungal spillover is a biotic edge effect of coffee in Costa Rica

We are indebted to the farmers who allowed us access to their coffee farms and forests, without whom none of this work would have been possible. The staff at the Las Cruces Biological Station and the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) deserve much gratitude for creating a comfortable and productive place to work. Enrique Castro Fonseca at OTS, and staff at the National Commission for the Management of Biodiversity (CONAGEBIO) in Costa Rica and USDA PPQ in Beltsville, Maryland, USA assisted with securing permits for research and collecting. The authors extend their gratitude to Mauricio Barquero Céspedes and Diego Mesa Solis for building the passive air samplers. We also thank Michael Atencio Picado and Erick Barrantes Fallas, who helped deploy and maintain the air samplers, Fiona Wolfe Travers for her assistance in the field, and Ethan Strom for his assistance in the lab. This work was supported by the resources and staff at the University of Minnesota Genomics Center (https://genomics.umn.edu). The bioinformatic pipelines of this study were executed using the Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) at North Dakota State University, made possible in part by NSF MRI Award No. 2019077.

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation DEB Awards 2048131 and 2037121 to LAW and 2120085 awarded to BB, as well as the Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to JAL (Grant No. 2137101). GE was supported by Donald & Beverly Stone Fellowships (Fund 507/557) through the Organization for Tropical Studies.

Authors and Affiliations

1. North Dakota State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Fargo, ND, USA

   Jeffrey A. Lackmann, Elena Prado-Ragan & Laura Aldrich-Wolfe

2. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, Honolulu, HI, USA

   Jeffrey A. Lackmann

3. Oklahoma State University, Dept. of Biology, Stillwater, OK, USA

   Bénédicte Bachelot & Gina Errico

4. Michigan State University, Department of Integrative Biology and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, USA

   Catherine Lindell

5. Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, East Lansing, MI, USA

   Catherine Lindell

6. Bowie State University, Department of Natural Sciences, Bowie, MD, USA

   Priscila Chaverri & Efraín Escudero-Leyva

7. Universidad de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en Productos Naturales (CIPRONA), San José, Costa Rica

   Priscila Chaverri

8. North Dakota State University, Department of Statistics, Fargo, ND, USA

   Megan Orr

9. Ecos del Bosque, Buena Vista, Costa Rica

   Federico Oviedo Brenes

10. Organization for Tropical Studies, Las Cruces Biological Station, San Vito, Costa Rica

    Jeisson Figueroa

Corresponding author

Correspondence to
Jeffrey A. Lackmann.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

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