Fungi are generally easily dispersed, able to colonise a wide variety of substrata and can
tolerate diverse environmental conditions. However, despite these abilities, the diversity of …

Abstract The Atacama Desert is one of the oldest and driest places on Earth. In the last
decade, microbial richness and diversity has been acknowledged as an important biological …

The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is the oldest and most arid nonpolar environment on
Earth. It is a coastal desert covering approximately 180,000 km2, and together with the …

Our knowledge on the Microbiology of the Atacama Desert has increased steadily and
substantially during the last two decades. This information now supports a paradigmatic …

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is a coastal nonpolar hyperarid desert with nearly
1,000 km long located in South America (latitudes 19◦ S and 30◦ S), between the Pacific …

Abstract Interests in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile until very recently were founded
on its mineral resources, notably nitrate, copper, lithium and boron. Now this vast desert, the …

Abstract The Atacama Desert presents one of the most extreme environments on Earth and
we report here the first extensive isolations of actinomycetes from soils at various locations …

In a desert, plants as holobionts quickly respond to resource pulses like precipitation.
However, little is known on how environment and plants modulate the rhizosphere …

Abstract The Atacama Desert is the most extreme non-polar biome on Earth, the core region
of which is considered to represent the dry limit for life and to be an analogue for Martian …

The Atacama Desert is one of the driest environments on Earth, and has been so for over
200,000 years. Previous reports have suggested that surprisingly low numbers of culturable …