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Insights into the Gut Microbiome of the South American Leaf-Toed Gecko ( Phylodactylus gerropygus ) Inhabiting the Core of the Atacama Desert by Rivera, Daniela S, Beltrán, Valentina, Gutiérrez-Cortés, Ignacio, Vargas, Constanza, Alfaro, Fernando D

“…Living in arid environments presents unique challenges to organisms, including limited food and water, extreme temperatures, and UV exposure. Reptiles, such as…”
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Soil microbial abundance and activity across forefield glacier chronosequence in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile by Alfaro, Fernando D., Salazar-Burrows, Alejandro, Bañales-Seguel, Camila, García, Juan-Luis, Manzano, Marlene, Marquet, Pablo A., Ruz, Kriss, Gaxiola, Aurora

“…In recently deglaciated soils, microbial organisms drive soil transformations by increasing carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools while depleting available…”
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The symbiotic alga Trebouxia fuels a coherent soil ecosystem on the landscape scale in the Atacama Desert by Jung, Patrick, Brand, Rebekah, Briegel-Williams, Laura, Werner, Lina, Jost, Emily, Lentendu, Guillaume, Singer, David, Athavale, Rujuta, Nürnberg, Dennis J, Alfaro, Fernando D, Büdel, Burkhard, Lakatos, Michael

“…Biocrusts represent associations of lichens, green algae, cyanobacteria, fungi and other microorganisms, colonizing soils in varying proportions of principally…”
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Microbial communities in soil chronosequences with distinct parent material: the effect of soil pH and litter quality by Alfaro, Fernando D., Manzano, Marlene, Marquet, Pablo A., Gaxiola, Aurora

“…1. During soil development, bacteria and fungi can be differentially affected by changes in soil biogeochemistry. Since the chemistry of parent material…”
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Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect by Bastida, Felipe, García, Carlos, Fierer, Noah, Eldridge, David J., Bowker, Matthew A., Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Asefaw Berhe, Asmeret, Cutler, Nick A., Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hart, Stephen C., Hayes, Patrick E., Hernández, Teresa, Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Jehmlich, Nico, Kirchmair, Martin, Lambers, Hans, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Peña-Ramírez, Víctor M., Pérez, Cecilia A., Reed, Sasha C., Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Sullivan, Benjamin W., Trivedi, Pankaj, Vera, Alfonso, Williams, Mark A., Luis Moreno, José, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

“…Identifying the global drivers of soil priming is essential to understanding C cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. We conducted a survey of soils across 86…”
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Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development by Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Bardgett, Richard D., Vitousek, Peter M., Maestre, Fernando T., Williams, Mark A., Eldridge, David J., Lambers, Hans, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Sala, Osvaldo E., Abades, Sebastián R., Alfaro, Fernando D., Berhe, Asmeret A., Bowker, Matthew A., Currier, Courtney M., Cutler, Nick A., Hart, Stephen C., Hayes, Patrick E., Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Kirchmair, Martin, Peña-Ramírez, Victor M., Pérez, Cecilia A., Reed, Sasha C., Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Sullivan, Benjamin W., Weber-Grullon, Luis, Fierer, Noah

“…Belowground organisms play critical roles in maintaining multiple ecosystem processes, including plant productivity, decomposition, and nutrient cycling…”
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Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes by Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Reich, Peter B., Trivedi, Chanda, Eldridge, David J., Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Bastida, Felipe, Berhe, Asmeret A., Cutler, Nick A., Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hart, Stephen C., Hayes, Patrick E., He, Ji-Zheng, Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Hu, Hang-Wei, Kirchmair, Martin, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Pérez, Cecilia A., Reed, Sasha C., Santos, Fernanda, Sullivan, Benjamin W., Trivedi, Pankaj, Wang, Jun-Tao, Weber-Grullon, Luis, Williams, Mark A., Singh, Brajesh K.

“…The role of soil biodiversity in regulating multiple ecosystem functions is poorly understood, limiting our ability to predict how soil biodiversity loss might…”
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Prevalence of trace gas-oxidizing soil bacteria increases with radial distance from Polloquere hot spring within a high-elevation Andean cold desert by Garvin, Zachary K, Abades, Sebastián R, Trefault, Nicole, Alfaro, Fernando D, Sipes, Katie, Lloyd, Karen G, Onstott, Tullis C

“…High-elevation arid regions harbor microbial communities reliant on metabolic niches and flexibility to survive under biologically stressful conditions,…”
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High‐frequency monitoring of hydrological and biogeochemical fluxes in forested catchments of southern Chile by Frêne, Cristián, Armesto, Juan J., Véliz, Freddy, Alfaro, Fernando D., Weathers, Kathleen C.

“…The variability of rainfall‐dependent streamflow at catchment scale modulates many ecosystem processes in wet temperate forests. Runoff in small mountain…”
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Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes by Bastida, Felipe, Eldridge, David J., Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Gallardo, Antonio, García‐Velázquez, Laura, García, Carlos, Hart, Stephen C., Pérez, Cecilia A., Santos, Fernanda, Trivedi, Pankaj, Williams, Mark A., Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel

“…Unlike plants and vertebrates, the ecological preferences, and potential vulnerabilities of soil invertebrates to environmental change, remain poorly…”
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The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes by Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Reich, Peter B., Bardgett, Richard D., Eldridge, David J., Lambers, Hans, Wardle, David A., Reed, Sasha C., Plaza, César, Png, G. Kenny, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Hart, Stephen C., Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Bastida, Felipe, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Cutler, Nick A., Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hayes, Patrick E., Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Pérez, Cecilia A., Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sullivan, Benjamin W., Weber-Grullon, Luis, Williams, Mark A., Fierer, Noah

“…The importance of soil age as an ecosystem driver across biomes remains largely unresolved. By combining a cross-biome global field survey, including data for…”
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Vegetation drives the response of the active fraction of the rhizosphere microbial communities to soil warming in Antarctic vascular plants by Parada-Pozo, Génesis, Bravo, León A, Sáez, Patricia L, Cavieres, Lohengrin A, Reyes-Díaz, Marjorie, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D, De la Iglesia, Rodrigo, Trefault, Nicole

“…Abstract In the Antarctic Peninsula, increases in mean annual temperature are associated with the coverage and population density of the two Antarctic vascular…”
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Soil biodiversity supports the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions in urban greenspaces by Fan, Kunkun, Chu, Haiyan, Eldridge, David J., Gaitan, Juan J., Liu, Yu-Rong, Sokoya, Blessing, Wang, Jun-Tao, Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Sun, Wei, Cui, Haiying, Alfaro, Fernando D., Abades, Sebastian, Bastida, Felipe, Díaz-López, Marta, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Berdugo, Miguel, Blanco-Pastor, José L., Grebenc, Tine, Duran, Jorge, Illán, Javier G., Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Mukherjee, Arpan, Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza, César, Verma, Jay Prakash, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Teixido, Alberto L., Trivedi, Pankaj, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Yang, Tianxue, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zaady, Eli, Tedersoo, Leho, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

“…While the contribution of biodiversity to supporting multiple ecosystem functions is well established in natural ecosystems, the relationship of the above- and…”
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Eco-hydrological Functions in Forested Catchments of Southern Chile by Frêne, Cristián, Dörner, José, Zúñiga, Felipe, Cuevas, Jaime G., Alfaro, Fernando D., Armesto, Juan J.

“…Ecosystem functions in forests can vary significantly after disturbance, depending on changes in vegetation structure during succession and soil biophysical…”
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Bacterial community structure in a sympagic habitat expanding with global warming: brackish ice brine at 85–90 °N by Fernández-Gómez, Beatriz, Díez, Beatriz, Polz, Martin F., Arroyo, José Ignacio, Alfaro, Fernando D., Marchandon, Germán, Sanhueza, Cynthia, Farías, Laura, Trefault, Nicole, Marquet, Pablo A., Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Sylvander, Peter, Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, Pauline

“…Larger volumes of sea ice have been thawing in the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO) during the last decades than during the past 800,000 years. Brackish brine (fed…”
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Soil bacterial community structure of fog‐dependent Tillandsia landbeckii dunes in the Atacama Desert by Alfaro, Fernando D., Manzano, Marlene, Almiray, Cristian, García, Juan-Luis, Osses, Pablo, del Rio, Camilo, Vargas, Constanza, Latorre, Claudio, Koch, Marcus A., Siegmund, Alexander, Abades, Sebastian

“…The interplay between plants and soil drives the structure and function of soil microbial communities. In water-limited environments where vascular plants are…”
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Sociality of Octodontomys gliroides and other octodontid rodents reflects the influence of phylogeny by Rivera, Daniela S., Abades, Sebastian, Alfaro, Fernando D., Ebensperger, Luis A.

“…Multiple ecological factors are known to drive variation in social behavior. However, group-living in some species appears to be highly conserved, suggesting a…”
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The grit crust: A poly-extremotolerant microbial community from the Atacama Desert as a model for astrobiology by Jung, Patrick, Lehnert, Lukas W., Bendix, Jörg, Lentendu, Guillaume, Grube, Martin, Alfaro, Fernando D., Rio, Camilo del, Gutiérrez Alvarado, José Luis, van den Brink, Liesbeth, Lakatos, Michael

“…The grit crust is a recently discovered, novel type of biocrust made of prokaryotic cyanobacteria, eukaryotic green algae, fungi, lichens and other microbes…”
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Molecular phylogenetics of mouse opossums: new findings on the phylogeny of Thylamys (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) by Palma, R. Eduardo, Boric-Bargetto, Dusan, Jayat, J. Pablo, Flores, David A., Zeballos, Horacio, Pacheco, Víctor, Cancino, Ricardo A., Alfaro, Fernando D., Rodríguez-Serrano, Enrique, Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.

“…The mouse opossums of the genus Thylamys constitute a group of species mainly adapted to open xeric‐like habitats and restricted to the southern portion of…”
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Global hotspots for soil nature conservation by Guerra, Carlos A., Berdugo, Miguel, Eldridge, David J., Eisenhauer, Nico, Singh, Brajesh K., Cui, Haiying, Abades, Sebastian, Alfaro, Fernando D., Bamigboye, Adebola R., Bastida, Felipe, Blanco-Pastor, José L., de los Ríos, Asunción, Durán, Jorge, Grebenc, Tine, Illán, Javier G., Liu, Yu-Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Mamet, Steven, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Moreno, José L., Mukherjee, Arpan, Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza, César, Picó, Sergio, Verma, Jay Prakash, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Tedersoo, Leho, Teixido, Alberto L., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Trivedi, Pankaj, Wang, Juntao, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

“…Soils are the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems 1 . However, unlike for plants and animals, a global assessment of hotspots for soil nature conservation…”
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