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Fig. 9 | Environmental Microbiome

Fig. 9

From: The symbiotic alga Trebouxia fuels a coherent soil ecosystem on the landscape scale in the Atacama Desert

Fig. 9

Graphical scheme of dominant biocrust-assigned cryptogams according to biomes. This scheme roughly illustrates which cryptogams are dominant in biocrusts according to temperature, water availability and -source. The grit crust of the Atacama Desert represents a biocrust type dominated by chlorolichens due to low water availability restricted to fog and / or dew as well as comparably low temperatures

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Environmental Microbiome

ISSN: 2524-6372