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‘White gold’ guano fertilizer drove agricultural intensification in the Atacama Desert from ad 1000
The archaeological record shows that large pre-Inca agricultural systems supported settlements for centuries around the ravines and oases of northern Chile’s hyperarid Atacama Desert. This raises questions abo...
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Open AccessPlant pathogen responses to Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change in the central Atacama Desert, Chile
Future climate change has the potential to alter the distribution and prevalence of plant pathogens, which may have significant implications for both agricultural crops and natural plant communities. However, ...
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Open AccessStructure and co-occurrence patterns in microbial communities under acute environmental stress reveal ecological factors fostering resilience
Understanding the factors that modulate bacterial community assembly in natural soils is a longstanding challenge in microbial community ecology. In this work, we compared two microbial co-occurrence networks ...
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Open AccessNitrogen cycling in an extreme hyperarid environment inferred from δ15N analyses of plants, soils and herbivore diet
Climate controls on the nitrogen cycle are suggested by the negative correlation between precipitation and δ15N values across different ecosystems. For arid ecosystems this is unclear, as water limitation among o...
