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Landscape topography and regional drought events alter dust microbiomes in California’s Sierra Nevada

Landscape topography and regional drought events alter dust microbiomes in California’s Sierra Nevada

authors:

Mia R. Maltz, Chelsea J. Carey, Hannah Linton Freund, Jon K. Botthoff, Stephen C. Hart, Jason E. Stajich, Sarah M. Aarons, Sarah M. Aciego, Molly Blakowski, Nicholas C. Dove, Morgan E. Barnes, Nuttapon Pombubpa, Emma L. Aronson

publication:

Frontiers in Microbiology. 13:856454

Year:

2022

month:

6 - June

description:

Dust provides an ecologically significant input of nutrients, especially in slowly eroding ecosystems where chemical weathering intensity limits nutrient inputs from underlying bedrock. In addition to nutrient inputs, incoming dust is a vector for dispersing dust-associated microorganisms. While little is known about dust-microbial dispersal, dust deposits may have transformative effects on ecosystems far from where the dust was emitted.

contact information

Dr. Mia Maltz

University of Connecticut
Plant Science and Landscape Architecture 1376 Storrs Rd.
Storrs, CT 06290-4067

mia.maltz@uconn.edu

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