Additions to the “Martian Flora”: new botanical records from the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah

The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is a Mars-simulation campus set in a Martian planetary analogue in southern Utah. Despite a long history of astrobiology research, collections-based taxonomic inventories of the macro-level biodiversity around the station are relatively new. This study serves...

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Autores principales: Sokoloff, Paul C., Murray, David A., McBeth, Samantha R.M., Irvine, Michael G., Rupert, Shannon M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32903960
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e55063
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author Sokoloff, Paul C.
Murray, David A.
McBeth, Samantha R.M.
Irvine, Michael G.
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description The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is a Mars-simulation campus set in a Martian planetary analogue in southern Utah. Despite a long history of astrobiology research, collections-based taxonomic inventories of the macro-level biodiversity around the station are relatively new. This study serves to add to the initial vascular plant list published for the station in 2016, where 39 species were recorded for MDRS. Here we report 40 new species, two new taxa recorded only to genus and two species re-identified from our 2016 fieldwork, bringing the total number of taxa in the "Martian" flora to 79 species and two taxa recorded to genus.
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spelling pubmed-74476762020-09-03 Additions to the “Martian Flora”: new botanical records from the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah Sokoloff, Paul C. Murray, David A. McBeth, Samantha R.M. Irvine, Michael G. Rupert, Shannon M. Biodivers Data J Research Article The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is a Mars-simulation campus set in a Martian planetary analogue in southern Utah. Despite a long history of astrobiology research, collections-based taxonomic inventories of the macro-level biodiversity around the station are relatively new. This study serves to add to the initial vascular plant list published for the station in 2016, where 39 species were recorded for MDRS. Here we report 40 new species, two new taxa recorded only to genus and two species re-identified from our 2016 fieldwork, bringing the total number of taxa in the "Martian" flora to 79 species and two taxa recorded to genus. Pensoft Publishers 2020-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7447676/ /pubmed/32903960 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e55063 Text en Paul C. Sokoloff, David A. Murray, Samantha R.M. McBeth, Michael G. Irvine, Shannon M. Rupert http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32903960
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e55063
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