Metabolic transitions along a moisture gradient in a poly-extreme high-altitude desert ecosystem within the Atacama Desert.

Environ Microbiome · 2026 · PMC12849286 · PMID 41578357

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Our previous study indicated that the favourable conditions imposed by the lake sustained an active soil heterotrophic bacterial community along a 70-meter moisture gradient, with an increasing trend of activity occurring 8 to 23 m from the lake [ 54 ].

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