Introductory Chapter: Global Aspects and Scientific Importance of Desert Ecological Research

Hufnágel, Levente; Mics, Ferenc; Pálinkás, Melinda; RékaHomoródi,

doi:10.5772/intechopen.78368

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Introduction1

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2021

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent1

Authors

Journals

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Conditions of periodic or permanent low water availability are unquestionably challenging to organisms and can be incompatible with life. This is often evidenced by the near‐complete absence of macrofauna and plants in the more extreme desert habitats (Hufnagel et al ., 2018; Berdugo et al ., 2021). It might be expected that microbial populations would also be either scarce or absent in drylands (Dragone et al ., 2021).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microbial anhydrobiosis

Bosch

Varliero

Hallsworth

et al. 2021

Environmental Microbiology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This review reports the state of knowledge on metabolism during the anhydrobiotic state in microorganisms, and highlights the substantial gaps in our understanding of the qualitative and quantitative aspects of molecular and biochemical processes in desiccated microbial cells. Despite these knowledge gaps, we also argue that the available data, while often not directly quantifying anhydrobiotic metabolism, may support the concept of "anhydrobiotic basal metabolism" as a long-term survival strategy.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%