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Bacterial communities along a 4,500-meter elevation gradient in the sediment of the Yangtze River: what are the driving factors?

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Macroinvertebrate community structure in an extreme altiplanic environment from Chile: The Ascotán salt pan

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Belliella buryatensis sp. nov., isolated from alkaline lake water

Козырева, Л. П., Олеговна, Е. Д., Anan’ina, L. N., Плотникова, Е. Г., Ariskina, E. V., Prisyazhnaya, N. V., Radnaeva, L. D., & Namsaraev, B. B. (2015) · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY · doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000682 · Cited by 6

Benthic Bacterial Diversity of High-Altitude Athalassohaline Lakes of the Puna de Atacama (Central Andes)

Borsodi, A. K., Aszalós, J. M., Megyes, M., & Nagy, B. (2021) · Geomicrobiology Journal · doi:10.1080/01490451.2021.2000072 · Cited by 7

Performance, kinetic characteristics and bacterial community of short-cut nitrification and denitrification system at different ferrous ion conditions

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Prokaryotic Diversity at the Hypersaline Laguna Tebenquiche in the Salar de Atacama, Chile

Fernández, A. B., Visscher, P. T., Rasuk, M. C., Leiva, M. C., & Farı́as, M. E. (2020) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36192-1_10 · Cited by 4

Shifts in enzymatic activities and microbial community structures in the bioenhanced treatment of ship domestic sewage under microaerobic conditions

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Insights into an undescribed high‐elevation lake (6,170 m a.s.l.) on Volcán Llullaillaco: A physical and microbiological view

Arán, P., Aguilar, P., Bowen, T., Farson, M., Tapia, J. S., Vimercati, L., Darcy, J. L., Solon, A. J., Porazinska, D. L., Schmidt, S. K., et al. (2021) · Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems · doi:10.1002/aqc.3612 · Cited by 4

Temporary lake sustains active heterotrophic microbial communities in poly-extreme high-altitude environments of the Atacama Desert

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Should the Idea of “Sustainable Development” Be at the Heart of the Next Global Agenda—and Does It Matter for Education?

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Metagenomic profiling of halites from the Atacama Desert: an extreme environment with natural perchlorate does not promote high diversity of perchlorate reducing microorganisms

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Potential Effects of Climate Change in Saline Shallow Lakes in the North of Chile (Salar de Atacama, 23°S, Chile) and South Lipez of Bolivia (Khalina Lake, 22.61°S)

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Microbial and Geochemical Diversity of Laguna Timone, an Extreme Hypersaline Crater Lake in Patagonia (52° S)

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Metabolic transitions along a moisture gradient in a poly-extreme high-altitude desert ecosystem within the Atacama Desert

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Characterization and variability of the prokaryotic community in sediments from Salar de Lagunilla, Northern Chile

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Salinity tolerance of inhabitants in thalassic and athalassic saline and hypersaline waters & salt flats

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Exploraciones subterráneas

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4.1 Inagurando un piloto de uso directo

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6.2 Imaginar otros futuros posibles

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5.1 El termalismo verdadero

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2.1 Historias de pozos: Perforando y midiendo el vapor del Tatio

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5.2 El aparecer y desaparecer de las termas

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5.3 El silencio de las termas

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6.1 Los imaginarios de la electricidad

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Las cianobacterias en ambientes polares

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Microbial communities in high altitude altiplanic wetlands in northern Chile: phylogeny, diversity and function

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Novelty and spatio–temporal heterogeneity in the bacterial diversity of hypersaline Lake Tebenquiche (Salar de Atacama)

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Bacterial and archaeal diversity in high altitude wetlands of the Chilean Altiplano

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Unique clusters of Archaea in Salar de Huasco, an athalassohaline evaporitic basin of the Chilean Altiplano

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