Arid ecosystems cover∼ 40% of the Earth's terrestrial surface and store a high proportion of
the global nitrogen (N) pool. They are low-productivity, low-biomass, and polyextreme …

Microbial growth under extreme conditions is often slow. This is partly because large
amounts of energy are diverted into cellular mechanisms that allow survival under hostile …

The carbon cycle (C-cycle) is the most important and complex biogeochemical cycle in soil
ecosystems, but our understanding of C-cycle at the community level remains limited …

Dryland covers> 35% of the terrestrial surface and the global extent of dryland increases
due to the forecasted increase in aridity driven by climate change. Due to the climate change …

ABSTRACT The Permian Basin, underlying southeast New Mexico and west Texas, is one
of the most productive oil and gas (OG) provinces in the United States. Oil and gas …

Considering that global land degradation and desertification are increasing nowadays,
understanding how soil microbial communities are modulated by these drivers is of …

The current study aimed to analyze bacterial communities' diversity and abundance in three
different deserted areas (Merzouga, Mhamid Elghizlane, and Erg lihoud) located in …

Rain events in arid environments are highly unpredictable and intersperse extended periods
of drought. Therefore, tracking changes in desert soil bacterial communities during rain …

Deserts are one of the major terrestrial biomes on Earth and, with the impacts of global
climate change, are expanding. Given the fact that over two billion humans currently live in …

Existence of life outside the Earth is a mystery that human beings have been searching for
centuries. In the past few decades, discovering microbes in extremely terrestrial habitats has …