Freeze–thaw revival of rotifers and algae in a desiccated, high-elevation (5500 meters) microbial mat, high Andes, Perú

Growth of high-elevation Cryptococcus sp. during extreme freeze–thaw cycles

(2016) L. Vimercati et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Microbial Diversity in Sediment Ecosystems (Evaporites Domes, Microbial Mats, and Crusts) of Hypersaline Laguna Tebenquiche, Salar de Atacama, Chile

(2016) Ana B. Fernandez et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Diversity in Microbial Mats and Sediments from the Atacama Desert

(2015) Maria Cecilia Rasuk et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Nutrient Addition Dramatically Accelerates Microbial Community Succession

(2014) Joseph E. Knelman et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeny of ulotrichalean algae from extreme high-altitude and high-latitude ecosystems

(2014) S. K. Schmidt et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Glacier retreat crosses a line

(2014) S. Marshall   SCIENCE

Attribution of global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes

(2014) B. Marzeion et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogeny and biogeography of an uncultured clade of snow chytrids

(2013) C. S. Naff et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Discovery of Stromatolites Developing at 3570 m above Sea Level in a High-Altitude Volcanic Lake Socompa, Argentinean Andes

(2013) María E. Farías et al.   PLoS One

Annually Resolved Ice Core Records of Tropical Climate Variability over the Past  1800 Years

(2013) L. G. Thompson et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of UV-B Radiation and Periodic Desiccation on the Morphogenesis of the Edible Terrestrial Cyanobacterium Nostoc flagelliforme

(2012) Yan-Na Feng et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacteria and diatom co-occurrence patterns in microbial mats from polar desert streams

(2012) Lee F. Stanish et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs

(2012) Bruce A. Curtis et al.   NATURE

A simple method for determining limiting nutrients for photosynthetic crusts

(2012) Steve K. Schmidt et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

A contemporary evaluation of the acrasids (Acrasidae, Heterolobosea, Excavata)

(2011) Matthew W. Brown et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Soil rotifer communities are extremely diverse globally but spatially autocorrelated locally

(2011) M. S. Robeson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prokaryotic diversity pattern in high-altitude ecosystems of the Chilean Altiplano

(2010) Cecilia Demergasso et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Bacterial Community Structure Along Moisture Gradients in the Parafluvial Sediments of Two Ephemeral Desert Streams

(2010) Lydia H. Zeglin et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Phylogeography of microbial phototrophs in the dry valleys of the high Himalayas and Antarctica

(2010) S. K. Schmidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Resistance of Antarctic black fungi and cryptoendolithic communities to simulated space and Martian conditions

(2010) S. Onofri et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

A new environment for aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria: biological soil crusts

(2010) Julius T. Csotonyi et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Biogeography and habitat modelling of high-alpine bacteria

(2010) Andrew J. King et al.   Nature Communications

Microbial activity and diversity during extreme freeze–thaw cycles in periglacial soils, 5400 m elevation, Cordillera Vilcanota, Perú

(2009) S. K. Schmidt et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Recently exposed vegetation reveals Holocene changes in the extent of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru

(2009) Aron M. Buffen et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Environmental DNA sequencing primers for eutardigrades and bdelloid rotifers

(2009) Michael S Robeson et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Mycorrhizal and Dark-Septate Fungi in Plant Roots Above 4270 Meters Elevation in the Andes and Rocky Mountains

(2008) S. K. Schmidt et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Cyanobacteria (Nostoc commune) used as a dietary item in the Peruvian highlands produce the neurotoxic amino acid BMAA

(2008) Holly E. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY