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2022 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 104704
Author(s):  
Shelemia Nyamuryekung'e ◽  
Andres F. Cibils ◽  
Richard E. Estell ◽  
Dawn VanLeeuwen ◽  
Sheri Spiegal ◽  
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Geoderma ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 405 ◽  
pp. 115409
Author(s):  
Haneen Omari ◽  
Nicole Pietrasiak ◽  
Scott Ferrenberg ◽  
Michele K. Nishiguchi
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2021 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dulce Yaahid Flores-Rentería

In the terrestrial carbon cycle is very relevant to identify the influence of soil in the CO2 released to the atmosphere, which is linked to multiple biotic and abiotic drivers. Arid ecosystems dominate the trend and interannual variability of the land CO2 sink. This pattern is mainly controlled by temperature, precipitation, and shortwave radiation. Thus, these environments are characterized by a wide variability of water availability, which causes the CO2 efflux to be highly variable in time, challenging our model capacities. This study aims to understand the ecosystem CO2 fluxes and their controlling mechanisms from the Chihuahuan Desert in Northeast Mexico. We explore the average contribution of the Rsoil (1.30 mmol m-2 s‑1) to Reco (1.76 mmol m-2 s‑1), while identifying the controlling mechanisms of both on an annual scale. The structural equation model constructed showed a good f it for the data, explaining 50% and 93% of the annual variance of Rsoil and Reco, respectively. According to this model, Rsoil was mainly controlled by the air temperature, and Reco by soil water content. Unexpectedly, vapor pressure def icit was the most weight variable with a direct negative effect on Reco, supporting the idea that the vegetation component has a crucial role in the CO2 efflux of this ecosystem. This study highlights the importance of include multiple factors in the models of the C cycle.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omag Cano Villegas ◽  
Gisela Muro-Pérez ◽  
Enrique Jurado ◽  
Joel Flores ◽  
José Gamaliel Castañeda-Gaytan ◽  
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An integrative geographical climatology is presented to objectively identify regional patterns of climate variability within the mid-low Nazas-Aguanaval basin within the States of Durango and Coahuila in Central Northern Mexico, using decadal mean values for maximum and minimum temperature, as well as monthly precipitation during the seven periods from 1951-2020. The historical data was acquired from 26 field meteorological stations and 44 grid points from the SWAT model. Furthermore, the data was categorized by means of geographical features of altitude, longitude and latitude in three groups each. A combination of meteorological vulnerability from all the categories for each sampling point was then estimated for each locality. From the overall analysis, western sites resulted as the most vulnerable to climatic changes, while eastern and central (latitude) displayed the lowest variability occurrence. By means of downscaling the meteorological variation, it is possible to improve the understanding of mechanisms relying on regional climate variability and climate change. This evaluation can be further incorporated to management strategies for different stakeholders in arid and semi-arid lands, particularly within the Chihuahuan Desert.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Madrigal-Trejo ◽  
Jazmín Sánchez-Pérez ◽  
Laura Espinosa-Asuar ◽  
Valeria Souza

Microbial mats are complex ecological assemblages that are found in the Precambrian fossil record and in extant extreme environments. Hence, these structures are regarded as highly stable ecosystems. In this work, we assess the ecological stability in a modern, fluctuating, hypersaline pond from the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin. From the 2016 to 2019 metagenomic sampling of this site, we found that this microbial site is sensitive to disturbances, which leads to high taxonomic replacement. Additionally, the mats have shown to be functionally stable throughout time, and could be differentiated between dry and rainy seasonal states. We speculate that this microbial system could represent a modern analog of ancient, hypersaline coastal microbial mats, where functions were preserved over time, whereas taxonomic composition was subject to diversification in the face of local and planetary perturbations.


2021 ◽  
pp. 350-362
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Van Devender ◽  
George L. Bradley

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos E. Santibáñez-López ◽  
Paula E. Cushing ◽  
Alexsis M. Powell ◽  
Matthew R. Graham

AbstractSpecies of camel spiders in the family Eremobatidae are an important component of arthropod communities in arid ecosystems throughout North America. Recently, research demonstrated that the evolutionary history and biogeography of the family are poorly understood. Herein we explore the biogeographic history of this group of arachnids using genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data, morphology, and distribution modelling to study the eremobatid genus Eremocosta, which contains exceptionally large species distributed throughout North American deserts. Relationships among sampled species were resolved with strong support and they appear to have diversified within distinct desert regions along an east-to-west progression beginning in the Chihuahuan Desert. The unexpected phylogenetic position of some samples suggests that the genus may contain additional, morphologically cryptic species. Geometric morphometric analyses reveal a largely conserved cheliceral morphology among Eremocosta spp. Phylogeographic analyses indicate that the distribution of E. titania was substantially reduced during the last glacial maximum and the species only recently colonized much of the Mojave Desert. Results from this study underscore the power of genome-wide data for unlocking the genetic potential of museum specimens, which is especially promising for organisms like camel spiders that are notoriously difficult to collect.


2021 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Knudsen ◽  
Jana Kocourková ◽  
Eva Hodková ◽  
Jiří Malíček ◽  
Yan Wang
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Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1413
Author(s):  
Estrella Herrera-Molina ◽  
Thomas E. Gill ◽  
Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia ◽  
Soyoung Jeon

The Southwestern USA has been identified as one of the most persistent dust-producing regions of North America, where exposure to inhalable particulate matter (PM10) originating from desertic landscape during dust events/dust exposures (DEs) can reach hazardous levels. El Paso, Texas’s ambient air has reached hazardous levels of PM10 from dust with near zero visibility due to these natural events originating in the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert. The aim of this study was to investigate whether dust exposures in El Paso (generally acute, short-term exposures from nearby source areas) are associated with significant increases in hospitalizations on the day of the exposure and up to seven days afterwards. Using a Poisson regression, it was found that the relative risks of hospitalizations due to a variety of conditions were associated with dust exposures (through increases of 100 μg/m3 maximum hourly PM10 and/or increases of 4.5 m/s maximum hourly wind speed) in El Paso County, Texas between 2010 and 2014. Valley fever, coronary atherosclerosis, genitourinary diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, injury and poisoning, circulatory system conditions, respiratory system diseases, births, septicemia, Associated Diseases (the aggregation of hospital admissions for all causes, each associated with at least 5% of hospitalizations), and all ICD-9 admissions were significantly positively associated with dust exposures, indicated from higher to lower significant risk, at different lag periods after exposure. These findings, showing that an association does exist between dust exposures and hospitalizations, have important implications for residents of the world’s dryland cities.


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