Open AccessAtacama Desert’s Unprecedented Rains Are Lethal to Microbes
Author(s) -
Katherine Kornei
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2018eo109685
Subject(s) - desert (philosophy) , geography , environmental science , ecology , biology , philosophy , epistemology
Rainfall in the driest parts of Chile’s Atacama Desert in 2017 resulted in hypersaline lagoons that killed the majority of microbes adapted to millions of years of arid conditions.