Prokaryotic and eukaryotic community structure in field and cultured microbialites from the alkaline Lake Alchichica (Mexico). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The geomicrobiology of crater lake microbialites remains largely unknown despite their evolutionary interest due to their resemblance to some Archaean analogs in the dominance of in situ carbonate precipitation over accretion.
Estelle Couradeau +6 more
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Short-term climatic change in lake sediments from lake Alchichica, Oriental, Mexico [PDF]
Geofísica Internacional, 2003 Reduced precipitation in central Mexico is related to ENSO events. These short-term climatic fluctuations can modify mixing-stratification patterns of lake systems, reflected in the sediments deposited at the bottom year after year.
Diana Juárez +3 more
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Effects of El Niño on the dynamics of Lake Alchichica, central Mexico [PDF]
Geofísica Internacional, 2003 Lake Alchichica is a deep, warm-monomictic lake in Puebla State, central Mexico. Water temperature, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll a annual concentration patterns are compared under ENSO and non-ENSO conditions.
Alfonso Lugo, Javier Alcocer
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Phenotypic plasticity of life-history traits of a calanoid copepod in a tropical lake: Is the magnitude of thermal plasticity related to thermal variability? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 According to the Climatic Variability Hypothesis [CVH], thermal plasticity should be wider in organisms from temperate environments, but is unlikely to occur in tropical latitudes where temperature fluctuations are narrow.
Elizabeth Ortega-Mayagoitia +2 more
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Alkaline saline lakes: A chemical evolution experiment evaluating the stability of formaldehyde in an aqueous saline environment [PDF]
HeliyonFormaldehyde condensation in the presence of a mineral catalyst and under alkaline conditions is considered to be a ''messy'' chemical system due to its dependence on the complex chemical equilibrium between the reaction intermediates, which has a ...
Claudio Alejandro Fuentes-Carreón +3 more
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16S rDNA-based analysis reveals cosmopolitan occurrence but limited diversity of two cyanobacterial lineages with contrasted patterns of intracellular carbonate mineralization [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014 Cyanobacteria are mainly thought to induce carbonate precipitation extracellularly via their photosynthetic activity combined with the nucleation potential of exopolymeric substances. The discovery in microbialites of the alkaline lake Alchichica (Mexico)
Marie eRagon +5 more
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Metagenome-based diversity analyses suggest a significant contribution of non-cyanobacterial lineages to carbonate precipitation in modern microbialites [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Cyanobacteria are thought to play a key role in carbonate formation due to their metabolic activity, but other organisms carrying out oxygenic photosynthesis (photosynthetic eukaryotes) or other metabolisms (e.g.
Purificacion eLopez-Garcia
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Seasonal and Interannual Dynamics of Pelagic Rotifers in a Tropical, Saline, Deep Lake
Diversity, 2022 This is the first long-term study (monthly samples at two 4-year intervals: 1998 to 2001 and 2013 to 2016) on rotifers in a saline, deep lake. The pelagic rotifer assemblage of Lake Alchichica is simple and comprised by two species, both new and most ...
Rocío Fernández +4 more
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Journal of Limnology, 2022 The consistent warming of tropical lakes at all depths causes rapid development and long persistence of seasonal hypoxia in the hypolimnion, which greatly reduces the biodiversity of hypolimnetic benthic invertebrates. Full mixing of the water column in
Javier Alcocer +5 more
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The hidden role of dissolved organic carbon in the biogeochemical cycle of carbon in modern redox-stratified lakes [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2023 The dissolved organic carbon (DOC) reservoir plays a critical role in the C cycle of marine and freshwater environments because of its size and implication in many biogeochemical reactions.
R. Havas +11 more
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