Skip to main content

and
  1. Article

    Open Access

    Moss and Liverwort Covers Structure Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities Differently in the Icelandic Highlands

    Cryptogamic covers extend over vast polar tundra regions and their main components, e.g., bryophytes and lichens, are frequently the first visible colonizers of deglaciated areas. To understand their role in p...

    Javier Ortiz-Rivero, Isaac Garrido-Benavent, Starri Heiðmarsson in Microbial Ecology (2023)

  2. Article

    Open Access

    Novel lichen-dominated hypolithic communities in the Namib Desert

    The ventral surfaces of translucent rocks from hot desert pavements often harbor hypolithic microbial communities, which are mostly dominated by cyanobacteria. The Namib Desert fog belt supports extensive hypo...

    Asunción de los Ríos, Isaac Garrido-Benavent, Alicia Limón in Microbial Ecology (2022)