Browsing by Subject "Atacama desert"

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    • Biomineralization of lithium nanoparticles by li-resistant pseudomonas rodhesiae isolated from the Atacama ... 
      Bruna, N.; Galliani, E.; Oyarzún, P.; Bravo Rodríguez, Denisse Margarita; Fuentes, F.; Pérez Donoso, J. M. (BMC, 2022)
      Background: The Atacama salt flat is located in northern Chile, at 2300 m above sea level, and has a high concentration of lithium, being one of the main extraction sites in the world. The effect of lithium on microorganism ...
    • Bioprospecting of plant growth-promoting traits of psdomonas sp. strain C3 Isolated from the Atacama Desert: ... 
      Gaete Silva, Alexis Ignacio; Andreani Gerard, Constanza María; Maldonado, Jonathan E.; Muñoz Torres, Patricio A.; Sepúlveda Chavera, Germán F.; González Canales, Mauricio Alejandro (MDPI, 2022)
      Soil microorganisms that inhabit extreme environments have unique metabolic capacities and/or physical structures that allow them to survive in oligotrophic conditions. The bioprospecting of unknown bacteria in the context ...
    • Changes in the conceptual model of the Pampa del Tamarugal Aquifer: Implications for Central Depression ... 
      Viguier, Benoît; Daniele, Linda; Jourde, Hervé; Leonardi, Véronique; Yáñez, Gonzalo (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      This paper has been written following the results and reflections of the previously published paper (Viguier et al., 2018) detailing a multidisciplinary assessment of the groundwater resources in the northern part of the ...
    • CHLSOC: the Chilean Soil Organic Carbon database, a multi-institutional collaborative effort 
      Pfeiffer Jakob, Marco; Padarian, José; Osorio, Rodrigo; Bustamante, Nelson; Olmedo, Guillermo Federico; Guevara, Mario; Aburto, Felipe; Albornoz, Francisco; Antilen, Mónica; Araya, Elías; Arellano, Eduardo; Barret, Maialen; Barrera, Juan; Boeckx, Pascal; Briceño, Margarita; Bunning, Sally; Cabrol, Lea; Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Cornejo, Pablo; Corradini, Fabio; Curaqueo, Gustavo; Doetterl, Sebastián; Durán, Paola; Escudey, Mauricio; Espinoza, Angelina; Francke, Samuel; Fuentes Espoz, Juan; Fuentes, Marcel; Gajardo, Gonzalo; García, Rafael; Gallaud, Audrey; Galleguillos Torres, Mauricio; Gómez, Andrés; Hidalgo, Marcela; Ivelic Sáez, Jorge; Mashalaba, Lwando; Matus, Francisco; Meza, Francisco; Mora, María de la Luz; Mora, Jorge; Muñoz, Cristina; Norambuena, Pablo; Olivera, Carolina; Ovalle, Carlos; Panichini, Marcelo; Pauchard, Aníbal; Pérez Quezada, Jorge; Radic, Sergio; Ramírez, José; Riveras, Nicolás; Ruiz, Germán; Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Salgado, Iván; Seguel Seguel,Óscar; Sepúlveda, María; Sierra, Carlos; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Tapia, Francisco; Toledo, Balfredo; Torrico, José Miguel; Valle, Susana; Vargas, Ronald; Wolff, Michael; Zagal, Erick (Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH, 2020)
      A critical aspect of predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) concentrations is the lack of available soil information; where information on soil characteristics is available, it is usually focused on regions of high agricultural ...
    • Chronology, stratigraphy and hydrological modelling of extensive wetlands and paleolakes in the hyperarid ... 
      Pfeiffer, Marco; Latorre, Claudio; Santoro, Calogero M.; Gayo, Eugenia M.; Rojas, Rodrigo; Carrevedo, María Laura; McRostie, Virginia B.; Finstad, Kari M.; Heimsath, Arjun; Jungers, Matthew C.; De Pol-Holz, Ricardo; Amundson, Ronald (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier LtdThe halite-encrusted salt pans (salars) present at low elevations in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile are unique features of one of the driest and possibly oldest deserts on ...
    • Dietary diverstiy in the Atacama desert during the Late intermediate period of northern Chile 
      Alfonso-Durruty, Marta P.; Gayo, Eugenia M.; Standen, Vivien; Castro, Victoria; Latorre, Claudio; Santoro, Calogero M.; Valenzuela, Daniela (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      The Pacific Ocean that flanks the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile is one of the richest biomass producers around the world. Thus, it is considered a key factor for the subsistence of prehistoric societies ...
    • First record of cannibalism and possible siblicide in geranoaetus polyosoma registered in the atacama desert, ... 
      Valladares Faúndez, Pablo; Álvarez Henríquez, Nicole; Alvarado Orellana, Sergio (Universidad de Tarapaca, 2017)
      © 2017, Universidad de Tarapaca. All rights reserved. The Variable Hawk (Geranoaetus polyosoma) is a raptor species distributed throughout Chile. In Atacama Desert it feeds particularly lizards and on a littleproportion ...
    • Imaginaries of Port of Lamar from 1825 to 1877 Imaginarios del Puerto Lamar desde 1825 a 1877 
      Cosmelli, Javiera Letelier; Rojas, Victoria Castro (Universidad de Tarapaca, 2019)
      This paper presents an analysis of the construction of imaginaries of Port of Lamar in Cobija, currently located in the Antofagasta region, from its creation in 1825 until the years before the War of the Pacific. The Port ...
    • Moving into an arid landscape: lithic technologies of the pleistocene-Holocene transition in the high-altitude ... 
      Loyola, Rodrigo; Cartajena, Isabel; Núñez, Lautaro; López, M. Patricio (Elsevier, 2018-04)
      In this work, we use taphonomic and technological analyses as a basis for study of the spatial and temporal variability of six lithic assemblages from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (12,600 -11,000 cal BP), recovered ...
    • Two sides of the same desert: floristic connectivity and isolation along the hyperarid coast and precordillera ... 
      Ruhm, Jonathan; Böhnert, Tim; Mutke, Jens; Luebert Bruron, Federico José; Montesinos Tubée, Daniel B.; Weigend, Maximilian (Frontiers Media, 2022)
      In this study we aim at refining our understanding of the floristic connectivity of the loma- and precordillera floras of southern Peru and northern Chile and the parameters determining vegetation cover in this region. We ...