“…Until now, bacteria and archaea have been studied mainly in restinga vegetation and Atlantic, lowland, rain and tropical montane forests ( Martinson et al, 2010 ; Pittl et al, 2010 ; Goffredi et al, 2011 ; Carmo et al, 2014 ; Lehours et al, 2016 ; Louca et al, 2017b ; Simão et al, 2020 ). However, there is still a lack of information for other common ecosystems of the Neotropics, such as seasonally dry tropical forests and mangroves, where tank bromeliads can also be abundant ( De Sousa and Colpo, 2017 ; Aguilar-Cruz et al, 2022 ). Moreover, although it is well known that prokaryotic communities differ among and within bromeliad species, comparisons of these communities between ecosystems at a regional scale are still lacking.…”