2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)
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INS 7-2 - Cuatro Cienegas: An ecological experiment

Tuesday, August 7, 2018
243, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Valeria Souza, Ecología Evolutiva, UNAM Instituto de Ecología, México DF, Mexico, Luis E. Eguiarte, Ecología evolutiva, Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico city, Mexico, Michael Travisano, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Gabriela Olmedo, de Ingenieria Genética,, CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Mexico
Cuatro Cienegas Basin (CCB) is an amazing endangered oasis in the Mexican desert. This basin is one of the most biodiverse sites of the world, albeit, is the most oligotrophic site that we know. Interestingly, P, is as low as it has been reported in the Precambrian ocean, an Era where life P recycling was vital. Life in CCB has kept this signature metabolism as well as its marine origin. This relictual low P niche bubble has persisted through time as a lost world that we need to save in order to understand life most enduring experiment, this blue planet.
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