Geyserite in hot-spring siliceous sinter: Window on Earth's hottest terrestrial (paleo) environment and its extreme life

KA Campbell, DM Guido, P Gautret, F Foucher… - Earth-Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Siliceous hot-spring deposits, or sinters, typically form in active, terrestrial (on land), volcanic
terrains where magmatically heated waters circulating through the shallow crust emerge at …

The relevance of fungi in astrobiology research–Astromycology

MF Simões, M Cortesão, A Azua-Bustos, FY Bai… - Mycosphere, 2023 - elib.dlr.de
Since the very first steps of space exploration, fungi have been recorded as contaminants,
hitchhikers, or as part of missions' crews and payloads. Because fungi can cause human …

Tracing biosignature preservation of geothermally silicified microbial textures into the geological record

KA Campbell, BY Lynne, KM Handley, S Jordan… - Astrobiology, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Abstract New Zealand and Argentine (Late Jurassic–Recent) siliceous hot-spring deposits
(sinter) reveal preservation pathways of environmentally controlled, microbe-dominated …

Palaeomycology: a modern mycological view of fungal palynomorphs

NBN Otaño, MV Bianchinotti, MCN Saparrat - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fungal spores are increasingly used as reliable proxies in palaeoenvironmental
reconstructions; however, little attention is paid to the ecological tolerances of the fungi …

Revealing fungal communities in alpine wetlands through species diversity, functional diversity and ecological network diversity

F Xie, A Ma, H Zhou, Y Liang, J Yin, K Ma, X Zhuang… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The biodiversity of fungi, which are extremely important in maintaining the ecosystem
balance in alpine lakeside wetlands, has not been fully studied. In this study, we …

Multitrophic interactions in a geothermal setting: arthropod borings, actinomycetes, fungi and fungal-like microorganisms in a decomposing conifer wood from the …

AJ Sagasti, JLG Massini, IH Escapa… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
A permineralized araucarioid conifer stem, preserved in state of partial decay, is described
from the Middle to Late Jurassic Chon-Aike Formation (Bahía Laura Group) at Laguna …

Diverse subaerial and sublacustrine hot spring settings of the Cerro Negro epithermal system (Jurassic, Deseado Massif), Patagonia, Argentina

DM Guido, KA Campbell - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Late Jurassic (~ 150Ma) Cerro Negro volcanic–epithermal–geothermal system (~
15km2 area), Deseado Massif, Patagonia, Argentina, includes two inferred volcanic …

A large and complete Jurassic geothermal field at Claudia, Deseado massif, Santa Cruz, Argentina

DM Guido, KA Campbell - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Late Jurassic geothermal deposits at Claudia, Argentinean Patagonia, are among the
largest (40 km 2) and most varied in the Deseado Massif, a 60,000 km 2 volcanic province …

Upper Jurassic travertine at El Macanudo, Argentine Patagonia: a fossil geothermal field modified by hydrothermal silicification and acid overprinting

DM Guido, KA Campbell - Geological Magazine, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Deseado Massif hosts numerous Late Jurassic (150 Ma) fossil geothermal
systems related to an extensive volcanic event developed in a diffuse extensional back-arc …

Fungi as parasites: a conspectus of the fossil record

CJ Harper, M Krings - The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism …, 2021 - Springer
Fungal parasites are important drivers in ecosystem dynamics today that can have far-
reaching effects on the performance and community structure of other organisms …