The Central Andes region displays unexplored ecosystems of shallow lakes and salt flats at
mean altitudes of 3700 m. Being isolated and hostile, these so-called “High-Altitude Andean …

High‐altitude Andean lakes (HAAL) are a treasure chest for microbiological research in
South America. Their indigenous microbial communities are exposed to extremely high UV …

Salar de Huasco, defined as a polyextreme environment, is a high altitude saline wetland in
the Chilean Altiplano (3800 masl), permanently exposed to the highest solar radiation doses …

The experiments were conducted for the estimation of the mitigating effect of the static
magnetic field (SMF of 200 mT for 1 h) treatment on soybean under ambient UV-B stress …

Concrete is an extreme but common environment and is home to microbial communities
adapted to alkaline, saline, and oligotrophic conditions. Microbes inside the concrete that …

Brownification is an increasingly concerning phenomenon faced by aquatic ecosystems in
the changing environments, and the microbiome plays an irreplaceable role in material …

Mobile genetic elements, including plasmids, drive the evolution of prokaryotic genomes
through the horizontal transfer of genes allowing genetic exchange between bacteria …

Salar de Uyuni, situated in the Southwest of the Bolivian Altiplano, is the largest salt flat on
Earth. Brines of this athalassohaline hypersaline environment are rich in lithium and boron …

Almost one third of Earth's land surface is arid, with deserts alone covering more than 46
million square kilometres. Nearly 2.1 billion people inhabit deserts or drylands and these …

Polyextremophiles are present in a wide variety of extreme environments in which they must
overcome various hostile conditions simultaneously such as high UVB radiation, extreme …