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SUBMITTER: Azua-Bustos A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6232106 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Azua-Bustos A A Fairén A G AG González-Silva C C Ascaso C C Carrizo D D Fernández-Martínez M Á MÁ Fernández-Sampedro M M García-Descalzo L L García-Villadangos M M Martin-Redondo M P MP Sánchez-García L L Wierzchos J J Parro V V
Scientific reports 20181112 1
The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, the driest and oldest desert on Earth, has experienced a number of highly unusual rain events over the past three years, resulting in the formation of previously unrecorded hypersaline lagoons, which have lasted several months. We have systematically analyzed the evolution of the lagoons to provide quantitative field constraints of large-scale impacts of the rains on the local microbial communities. Here we show that the sudden and massive input of water ...[more]