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Life under quartz: Hypolithic mosses in the Mojave Desert

Several species of dryland cyanobacteria are known to occur as hypoliths under semi-translucent rocks. In the Mojave Desert, these organisms find refuge from intense solar radiation under milky quartz where moisture persists for a longer period of time than in adjacent soil surface habitat. Desert m...

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Autores principales: Ekwealor, Jenna T. B., Fisher, Kirsten M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7375520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32697785
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235928