Browsing by Subject "Atacama Desert"
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(MDPI AG, 2019)The natural salt meadows of Tilopozo in the hyperarid, Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which are located at approximately 2800 m above sea level, are under pressure from industrial activity, and cultivation and grazing ...
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(2013)A small, new species of gerbil rodents of the genus Eligmodontia from the southwestern dunes of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is described; the genus had not been reported for this western lowland region. Our ...
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(MDPI AG, 2015)The antioxidant features, polyphenolic composition and chromatographic fingerprints of the aerial parts from three Chilean endemic plants from the Paposo Valley located on the cost of the Atacama Desert were investigated ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2018)We estimated visitors' willingness to pay (WTP) for a variety of environmental attributes in a protected area of the Atacama Desert, a biodiversity hotspot in northern Chile. By using a choice experiment, WTP was estimated ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2012)Intensive precipitations in desert areas are a very scarce phenomenon. Nevertheless, from time to time these events take place, as in 1997 in Southern Atacama Desert in Chile. The study area within the Copiapó catchment ...
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(Springer, 2020)The Atacama Desert is one of the oldest and driest places on Earth. In the last decade, microbial richness and diversity has been acknowledged as an important biological resource of this region. Owing to the value of the ...
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(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2010-04-08)The Atacama Desert, located in northern Chile, is one of the driest deserts on the Earth. However, in some years, short and sporadic rainfall in the southern end of this desert has increased the soil moisture that produces ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2019)© 2019In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, large amounts of the copper hydroxy-chloride mineral atacamite (Cu2Cl(OH)3) are formed in the supergene oxidation zone of Cu deposits. Since atacamite requires saline water ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The updated Koppen-Geiger climate classification for continental Chile is a cartographic product of great interest for climate research in the South American context. This study included 200 weather stations and climate ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)Microbacterium sp. CGR1 (RGM2230) is an isolate from the Atacama Desert that displays a wide pH, salinity and temperature tolerance. This strain exhibits riboflavin overproducer features and traits for developing an ...
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(Elsevier, 2017)Understanding how human societies interacted with environmental changes is a major goal of archaeology and other socio-natural sciences. In this paper, we assess the human-environment interactions in the Pampa del Tamarugal ...
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(2016)Phyllotis limatus is an inhabitant of the Atacama Desert, where it is distributed in arid costs and Pacific Andean slopes, reaching 4.000 meters. With the implementation of a study of wildlife in a Chilean Prepuna area, ...
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(Interciencia, 2016)he Barn Owl (Tyto alba) is a nocturnal raptor species distributed from Arica to Tierra del Fuego in Chile. The diet of this bird is the best known of any raptor of Chile; it is based on small vertebrates, particularly ...
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Dieta del aguilucho común Geranoaetus polyosoma (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) en la Región de Atacama, Chile (Ediciones Universitarias, 2015)The Variable Hawk (Geranoaetus polyosoma) is a raptor species distributed from Arica to Tierra del Fuego in Chile. It consumes small vertebrates and invertebrates, particularly insects and arachnids. The biological information ...
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(Elsevier, 2014)tThe effects of using alternative sets of climatic predictor variables on the performance, spatial predictionsand future projections of species distribution models (SDMs) and its consequences on extinction riskestimates ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)The article presents the results of a study conducted on an assemblage of archeofaunal remains from the Copaca 1 archeological site, located on the arid coast of Northern Chile. The site corresponds to an extensive shell ...
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(Elsevier GmbH, 2018)A polyphasic study was undertaken to establish the taxonomic status of three representative Geodermatophilus strains isolated from an extreme hyper-arid Atacama Desert soil. The strains, isolates B12T, B20 and B25, were ...
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(Springer Netherlands, 2018)The Atacama Desert, the driest of its kind on Earth, hosts a number of unique geological and geochemical features that make it unlike any other environment on the planet. Considering its location on the western border of ...
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(Springer Netherlands, 2018)Innovative procedures were used to selectively isolate small numbers of Micromonospora strains from extreme hyper-arid and high altitude Atacama Desert soils. Micromonosporae were recognised on isolation plates by their ...
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(Amer Soc Microbiology, 2015)Streptomyces leeuwenhoekii, isolated from the hyperarid Atacama Desert, produces the new ansamycin-like compounds chaxamycins A to D, which possess potent antibacterial activity and moderate antiproliferative activity. We ...
