On the importance of moisture conveyor belts from the tropical eastern Pacific for wetter conditions in the Atacama Desert during the mid-Pliocene [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2023 Geomorphic and sedimentologic data indicate that the climate of today's hyper-arid Atacama Desert (northern Chile) was more humid during the mid-Pliocene to Late Pliocene.
M. Reyers +7 more
doaj +1 more source
57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy studies of chondritic meteorites from the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for weathering processes [PDF]
, 2016 Some terrestrial areas have climatic and geomorphologic features that favor the preservation, and therefore, accumulation of meteorites. The Atacama Desert in Chile is among the most important of such areas, known as dense collection areas.
Gattacceca, Jerome +5 more
core +1 more source
Microbiome, 2021 Background The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert is an extremely harsh environment thought to be colonized by only a few heterotrophic bacterial species.
Yunha Hwang +11 more
doaj +1 more source
A new species of Ithome Chambers (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Chrysopeleiinae) from the Atacama Desert revealed by morphology and DNA barcodes [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Morphology and DNA barcode sequences were used to assess the taxonomic status of a micro-moth of the genus Ithome Chambers, 1875 (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Chrysopeleiinae), whose larvae feed on inflorescences of Prosopis tamarugo Phil. (Fabaceae), a
Sebastián Espinoza-Donoso +4 more
doaj +3 more sources
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 In the Atacama Desert from northern Chile (19–24°S), Prosopis (Leguminosae) individuals are restricted to oases that are unevenly distributed and isolated from each other by large stretches of barren landscape constituting an interesting study model as ...
Cecilia Bessega +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Erosion after an extreme storm event in an arid fluvial system of the southern Atacama Desert: an assessment of the magnitude, return time, and conditioning factors of erosion and debris flow generation [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2020 The contribution of an individual extreme storm event to long-term erosion rates has been estimated for the first time in the Atacama Desert. A mean erosion of 1.3 mm has been calculated for the March 2015 event that impacted the southernmost part
G. Aguilar +7 more
doaj +1 more source
Ancient Leishmaniasis in a highland desert of Northern Chile. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 BACKGROUND:Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease endemic today in many areas of South America. METHODOLOGY:We discovered morphologic and molecular evidence of ancient infections in 4 female skulls in the archaeological cemetery of Coyo Oriente, in the ...
Maria Antonietta Costa +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Scientific Reports, 2021 Reputed to be the driest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert in the Central Andes of Northern Chile is an extreme environment with high UV radiation, wide temperature variation, and minimum precipitation.
R. P. Reid +8 more
doaj +1 more source
Scientific Reports, 2022 The Atacama Desert is the driest and oldest desert on Earth. Despite the abundance evidence for long-term landscape stability, there are subtle signs of localised fluvial erosion and deposition since the onset of hyperaridity in the rock record.
Benedikt Ritter +6 more
doaj +1 more source
A forest‐specialist carnivore in the middle of the desert?Comments on Anabalon et al. 2019
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 We present comments on an article recently published in Ecology and Evolution (“High‐resolution melting of the cytochrome B gene in fecal DNA: A powerful approach for fox species identification of the Lycalopex genus in Chile”) by Anabalon et al.
Darío Moreira‐Arce +7 more
doaj +1 more source