The forgotten World of Stones and Fog:
Ecology & Diversity of Extremophile Cryptogams of the Atacama Desert
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Joseph, R. G., Graham, L., Büdel, B., Jung, P., Kidron, G. J., Latif, K., ... & Consorti, L. (2020). Mars: Algae, Lichens, Fossils, Minerals, Microbial Mats, and Stromatolites in Gale Crater. Journal of Astrobiology and Space Science Reviews, 3(1), 40-111.
Jung, P., Baumann, K., Lehnert, L. W., … Büdel, B. (2020). Desert breath—How fog promotes a novel type of soil biocenosis, forming the coastal Atacama Desert’s living skin. Geobiology; cover image Issue Jan 2020
Jung, P., Emrich, D., Briegel‐Williams, L., Schermer, M., Weber, L., Baumann, K., ... & Bendix, J. (2019). Ecophysiology and phylogeny of new terricolous and epiphytic chlorolichens in a fog oasis of the Atacama Desert. MicrobiologyOpen, e894.
Jung, P., Schermer, M., Baumann, K., … Büdel, B. (2019). Water availability shapes edaphic and lithic cyanobacterial communities in the Atacama Desert. Journal of Phycology.
Bernhard, N., Moskwa, L. M., Schmidt, K., Oeser, R. A., Aburto, F., Bader, M. Y., Jung, P. ... & Brucker, E. (2018). Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: New insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile. Catena, 170, 335-355.
Lehnert, L. W., Thies, B., Trachte, K., Achilles, S., Osses, P., Baumann, K., Jung, P. ... & Karsten, U. (2018). A Case Study on Fog/Low Stratus Occurrence at Las Lomitas, Atacama Desert (Chile) as a Water Source for Biological Soil Crusts. Aerosol Air Qual. Res, 18, 254-269.
Lehnert, L. W., Jung, P., Obermeier, W. A., Büdel, B., & Bendix, J. (2018). Estimating Net Photosynthesis of Biological Soil Crusts in the Atacama Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing, 10(6).
Baumann, K., Jung, P., Samolov, E., Lehnert, L. W., Büdel, B., Karsten, U., ... & Oses, R. (2018). Biological soil crusts along a climatic gradient in Chile: richness and imprints of phototrophic microorganisms in phosphorus biogeochemical cycling. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 127, 286-300.
