2024
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-70447-x
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Sea spray allows for the growth of subaerial microbialites at the driest desert on Earth

Armando Azua-Bustos,
Carlos González-Silva,
Kevin Freedman
et al.

Abstract: Due to its extreme conditions, microbial life in the Atacama Desert is known to survive in well-protected micro-habitats (hypolithic, endolithic, etc.), but rarely directly exposed to the environment, that is, epilithic habitats. Here we report a unique site, La Portada, a cliff confronting the Pacific Ocean in the Coastal Range of this desert, in which the constant input of water provided by the sea spray allows for the growth of a black-colored epilithic subaerial microbial ecosystem. Formed by a complex com… Show more

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