A significant proportion of the Earth's surface is desert or in the process of desertification.
The extreme environmental conditions that characterize these areas result in a surface that …

Drylands constitute the most extensive terrestrial biome, covering more than one-third of the
Earth's continental surface. In these environments, stress limits animal and plant life, so life …

The microbial colonization profiles on microplastics (MPs) in marine environments have
recently sparked global interest. However, many studies have characterized plastisphere …

Bacteria belonging to phylum Gemmatimonadetes comprise approximately 2% of soil
bacterial communities. However, little is known of their ecology due to a lack of cultured …

Extreme arid regions in the worlds' major deserts are typified by quartz pavement terrain.
Cryptic hypolithic communities colonize the ventral surface of quartz rocks and this habitat is …

Drylands occupy approximately 41% of the Earth's terrestrial surface. Climate change and
land use practices are expected to affect biogeochemical cycling by the soil microbiome in …

The metaviromes of two distinct Antarctic hyperarid desert soil communities have been
characterized. Hypolithic communities, cyanobacterium-dominated assemblages situated on …

Drylands are the largest terrestrial biome on Earth and a ubiquitous feature is desert
pavement terrain, comprising rocks embedded in the mineral soil surface. Quartz and other …

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in the field of virus environmental
ecology. In marine ecosystems, for example, viruses are now thought to play pivotal roles in …

Bacterial diversity from McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, the coldest desert on earth, has
become more easily assessed with the development of High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) …