The phytomicrobiome: solving plant stress tolerance under climate change

AL Khan - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
With extraordinary global climate changes, increased episodes of extreme conditions result
in continuous but complex interaction of environmental variables with plant life. Exploring …

Understanding stochastic and deterministic assembly processes in microbial communities along temporal, spatial and environmental scales

M Menéndez‐Serra, VJ Ontiveros, J Cáliz… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the main drivers of community assembly remains an open fundamental question
in ecology. Dispersal processes introduce randomness in community composition while …

[HTML][HTML] Origin, accumulation and fate of dissolved organic matter in an extreme hypersaline shallow lake

A Butturini, P Herzsprung, OJ Lechtenfeld, P Alcorlo… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypersaline endorheic aquatic systems (H-SEAS) are lakes/shallow playas in arid and
semiarid regions that undergo extreme oscillations in salinity and severe drought episodes …

Planktonic microbial communities from microbialite‐bearing lakes sampled along a salinity‐alkalinity gradient

M Iniesto, D Moreira, K Benzerara… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Continental freshwater systems are particularly vulnerable to environmental variation.
Climate change‐induced desertification and the anthropogenic exploitation of hydric …

Ecological and metabolic thresholds in the bacterial, protist, and fungal microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes (Monegros Desert, Spain)

M Menéndez-Serra, X Triadó-Margarit, EO Casamayor - Microbial ecology, 2021 - Springer
We studied the 16S and 18S rRNA genes of the bacterial, protist, and fungal microbiomes of
131 samples collected in 14 ephemeral small inland lakes located in the endorheic area of …

Microbial diversity in polyextreme salt flats and their potential applications

M Ben Abdallah, M Chamkha, F Karray… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Recent geological, hydrochemical, and mineralogical studies performed on hypersaline salt
flats have given insights into similar geo-morphologic features on Mars. These salt …

Microbiome Variation Across Populations of Desert Halophyte Zygophyllum qatarensis

AL Khan, LD Lopes, S Bilal, S Asaf… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microbial symbionts play a significant role in plant health and stress tolerance. However, few
studies exist that address rare species of core-microbiome function during abiotic stress. In …

Archaeal overdominance close to life‐limiting conditions in geothermally influenced hypersaline lakes at the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia

J Belilla, M Iniesto, D Moreira… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Dallol protovolcanic area on the Danakil Depression (Afar region, Ethiopia) exhibits
unique hydrothermal manifestations in hypersaline context, yielding varied polyextreme …

Selective Pressure Influences Inter‐Biome Dispersal in the Assembly of Saline Microbial Communities

M Menéndez‐Serra, J Cáliz… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Selection and dispersal are the primary processes influencing community assembly at both
global and regional scales. Although the effectiveness of dispersal is often examined within …

Differential response of bacteria and fungi to drought on the decomposition of Sarcocornia fruticosa woody stems in a saline stream

A Doménech‐Pascual… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Inland saline ecosystems suffer multiple stresses (eg, high radiation, salinity, water scarcity)
that may compromise essential ecosystem functions such as organic matter decomposition …