Soda lakes contain high concentrations of sodium carbonates resulting in a stable elevated
pH, which provide a unique habitat to a rich diversity of haloalkaliphilic bacteria and …

Lithotrophic sulfur oxidation is an ancient metabolic process. Ecologically and taxonomically
diverged prokaryotes have differential abilities to utilize different reduced sulfur compounds …

Nearly half the earth's surface is occupied by dryland ecosystems, regions susceptible to
reduced states of biological productivity caused by climate fluctuations. Of these regions …

Soda lakes represent a unique ecosystem with extremely high pH (up to 11) and salinity (up
to saturation) due to the presence of high concentrations of sodium carbonate in brines …

Highlights•A current knowledge on extremophilic microbial communities in soda is
reviewed.•The focus is made on functional groups as opposed to general microbial …

A comprehensive physiological and phylogenetic characterisation was carried out of
“Thiobacillus ferrooxidans” m-1, an acidophilic iron-oxidizing bacterium first described over …

Ecological restoration of mine tailings have impact on soil physiochemical properties and
microbial communities. The surface soil has been a primary concern in the past decades …

The soda lake environment presents microorganisms with many combinations of physical
and chemical extremes, amongst them extremes of alkaline pH, salinity (NaCl), temperature …

Flooding an extreme alkaline-saline soil decreased alkalinity and salinity, which will change
the bacterial populations. Bacterial 16S rDNA libraries were generated of three soils with …

Four new Ascomycete fungi capable of degrading diesel oil were isolated from sediments of
a river estuary mainly contaminated by shipyard fuels or diesel oil. The isolates were …