Fumarole-supported islands of biodiversity within a hyperarid, high-elevation landscape on socompa volcano, puna de atacama, andes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 735-747

  Costello, Elizabeth K ^a   Halloy, Stephan R P ^b   Reed, Sasha C ^a   Sowell, Preston ^c   Schmidt, Steven K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Conservation International ^*  (Bolivia)

^c ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

%MOISTURE; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES; ATACAMA; ATACAMA DESERTS; CHLOROPHYLL-A; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MICROARTHROPODS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL ECO SYSTEMS; NOVEL LINEAGES; NUTRIENT LEVELS; NUTRIENT STATUS; PHOTOAUTOTROPHS; PHYLOGENETIC APPROACHES; PRIMARY PRODUCERS; RRNA GENES; SOIL ORGANIC CARBONS; SOIL SAMPLES; VASCULAR PLANTS; VOLCANIC DEBRIS; VOLCANIC DEGASSING; VOLCANIC SOILS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; DEBRIS; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; PORPHYRINS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; VOLCANOES;

SOILS;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; ELEVATION; FUMAROLE; ISLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; VOLCANO;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BOLIVIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUMARATES; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ANDES; SOCOMPA VOLCANO; SOUTH AMERICA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 59649107254     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01469-08     Document Type: Article

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