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Living at its dry limits: Tilliandsiales in the Atacama Desert
The northern Chilean Atacama Desert is among those regions on Earth where life exists at its dry limits. There is almost zero rainfall in its core zone, and the only source of water is a spatio-temporally complex fog system along the Pacific coast, which is reaching far into the hyperarid mainland. Hardly any vascular plants grow in these areas, and, thus, it is intriguing to be faced with a vegetation-type build-up by one single and highly specialized bromeliad species, Tillandsia landbeckii Phil., forming regular linear structures in a sloped landscape.
Editors
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Marcus A. Koch
Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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Dietmar Quandt
Nees‑Institute for Biodiversity of Plants (NEES), University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Alexander Siegmund
Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Department of Geography – Research Group for Earth Observation (rgeo), Heidelberg University of Education, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Articles (8 in this collection)
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Leaf wax composition and distribution of Tillandsia landbeckii reflects moisture gradient across the hyperarid Atacama Desert
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Spatial distribution and interannual variability of coastal fog and low clouds cover in the hyperarid Atacama Desert and implications for past and present Tillandsia landbeckii ecosystems
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Climate and coastal low-cloud dynamic in the hyperarid Atacama fog Desert and the geographic distribution of Tillandsia landbeckii (Bromeliaceae) dune ecosystems
Authors (first, second and last of 12)
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Soil bacterial community structure of fog‐dependent Tillandsia landbeckii dunes in the Atacama Desert
Authors (first, second and last of 11)
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Distribution patterns, ecological niche and conservation status of endemic Tillandsia purpurea along the Peruvian coast
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Setting the evolutionary timeline: Tillandsia landbeckii in the Chilean Atacama Desert
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Living at the dry limits: ecological genetics of Tillandsia landbeckii lomas in the Chilean Atacama Desert
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
