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Desert breath—How fog promotes a novel type of soil biocenosis, forming the coastal Atacama Desert’s living skin
Jung, Patrick; Baumann, Karen
; Lehnert, Lukas W.; Samolov, Elena; Achilles, Sebastian; Schermer, Michael; Wraase, Luise M.; Eckhardt, Kai-Uwe; Bader, Maaike Y.
; Leinweber, Peter
; Karsten, Ulf
; Bendix, Jörg
; Büdel, Burkhard (Geobiology, 2019)
The Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, presenting precarious conditions for biological activity. In the arid coastal belt, life is restricted to areas with fog events that cause almost daily wet–dry ...