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Quantitative synthesis of the effects of drought on community composition and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems

Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 6, June 2026.
Droughts, increasingly frequent under human‐driven climate change, are expected to intensify globally. Both pulsed and prolonged droughts can strongly affect organismal survival and population dynamics, potentially altering terrestrial communities and ecosystems.
Mattheau S. Comerford, Kate Nash, Averie St. Germaine, Colin Andrews, Tyler S. Barr, Jonathan Dain, Alyssa Goncalves, Amy, Jones, Cooper Kimball‐ Rhines, William Maguire, Alexander Richards, Emma Schneider, Alexis Wilkes, Mayra C. Vidal   +14 more
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In situ metabolism in halite endolithic microbial communities of the hyperarid Atacama Desert

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015
The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is one of the driest regions on Earth, with areas that exclude plants and where soils have extremely low microbial biomass.
Alfonso F Davila, Ian eHawes, Jonathan eGarcía Araya, Diego R Gelsinger, Jocelyne eDiRuggiero, Carmen eAscaso, Anne eOsano, Jacek eWierzchos   +7 more
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Plant life at the dry limit-Spatial patterns of floristic diversity and composition around the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Extreme arid conditions in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile have created a unique vegetation almost entirely restricted to the desert margins along the coast of the Pacific Ocean and the Andean range.
Jonathan Ruhm, Tim Böhnert, Maximilian Weigend, Felix F Merklinger, Alexandra Stoll, Dietmar Quandt, Federico Luebert   +6 more
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Atacama Desert’s Solastalgia: Color and Water for Dumping

Biosemiotics
The blooming desert or ‘El desierto florido’ in Spanish, is a millenarian climate pattern caused by El Niño that warms the surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and creates the conditions for rain in the Altiplano and the Atacama Desert, north of Chile.
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Atacama: Settling the desert and the semi desert in Chile

Estudios Geográficos, 2009
These spaces represent 40% of the national territory, 12% of the population and 15 of GDP. The desert is of extreme aridity and its main economical richness is in mining. These factors influence the human occupation, where 80% live in few urban centers, localized mainly in littoral areas and independent of the climatic, hydrological and ...
Cereceda, Pilar, Errázuriz, Ana María, Osses, Pablo   +2 more
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Perchlorate Levels in Soil and Waters from the Atacama Desert

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2013
Perchlorate is an anion that originates as a contaminant in ground and surface waters. The presence of perchlorate in soil and water samples from northern Chile (Atacama Desert) was investigated by ion chromatography-electrospray mass spectrometry. Results indicated that perchlorate was found in five of seven soils (cultivated and uncultivated) ranging
Calderon, R., Palma, P., Parker, D., Molina, M., Godoy, F. A., Escudey, M.   +5 more
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The Desert in Bottles: The Culturable Microbiome of the Atacama Desert's Grit Crust

Environmental Microbiology Reports
ABSTRACT Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are associations of microorganisms coexisting in the top millimetres of soil, which are found predominantly in arid biomes. Recently, a new type of biocrust, termed grit crust, of the coastal range of the Atacama Desert was discovered.
Patrick Jung, Laura Briegel‐Williams, Lina Werner, Emily Jost, Rebekah Brand, Karen Baumann, Michael Lakatos   +6 more
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Deserts of Atacama and Tarapaca [PDF]

Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1893
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Diversidad y patrones de distribución geográfica de insectos coleópteros en ecosistemas desérticos de la región de Antofagasta, Chile Diversity and geographic distribution patterns of coleopteran insects in desert ecosystems of the Antofagasta region, Chile

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2000
La fauna coleopterológica de la Región de Antofagasta, ha sido objeto de diversos trabajos, pero hasta el momento falta un análisis de conjunto de la diversidad y distribución espacial de las especies.
VIVIANE JEREZ
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Filogeografía de las llacas chilenas del género Thylamys (Marsupialia, Didelphidae) en base a secuencias del gen mitocondrial citocromo b Phylogeographic relationships of the Chilean llacas of the genus Thylamys (Marsupialia, Didelphidae) based on sequences of the cytochrome b mitochondrial gene

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2002
Seis especies de llacas o "mouse opossums" del género Thylamys se han descrito para Sudamérica, de las cuales investigamos las relaciones evolutivas de aquellas localizadas en el Altiplano y las quebradas de la Primera Región de Chile, y en localidades ...
ANDRÉS P. MEYHNARD, R. EDUARDO PALMA, ERIC RIVERA-MILLA   +2 more
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