The wetlands and salt flats of the Central Andes region are unique extreme environments as
they are located in high-altitude saline deserts, largely influenced by volcanic activity …

The high Andean arid plateau extends through Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. Within
the desert matrix, basins contain wetlands that provide essential resources for human …

Microbial communities inhabiting extreme environments such as Salar de Huasco (SH) in
northern Chile are adapted to thrive while exposed to several abiotic pressures and the …

The data reported in this paper are among the first relating to the microbiology of hyper-arid,
very high altitude deserts and they provide base line information on the structure of …

Biofilms, microbial mats, and microbialites dwell under highly limiting conditions (high
salinity, extreme aridity, pH, and elevated arsenic concentration) in the Andean Puna. Only …

High Andean wetlands, particularly those known as vegas or bofedales, are essential
conservation ecosystems due to their significant contribution to ecosystem services. The soil …

Abstract Central-Andean Ecosystems (between 2000 and 6000 m above sea level (masl)
are typical arid-to-semiarid environments suffering from the highest total solar and ultraviolet …

Puna wetlands and salars are a unique extreme environment all over the world, since their
locations are in high-altitude saline deserts, largely influenced by volcanic activity …

Abstract The Salar de Huasco is an evaporitic basin located in the Chilean Altiplano, which
presents extreme environmental conditions for life, ie high altitude (3800 masl), negative …

Salar de Llamara is situated in the north of the Atacama Desert, which is the driest desert
and one of the most irradiated places on Earth. Besides, its subterranean hypersaline waters …