Dispatches.
In: Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, Jg. 17 (2019-12-01), Heft 10, S. 548-553
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"Martian and Moon soils do not actually differ that much from some types of Earth soils, such as desert or Hawaiian volcanic soils", explains Wieger Wamelink, an ecologist and exobiologist at Wageningen University & Research (Wageningen, the Netherlands) and lead author of the study. Because of their basic similarity, lunar and Martian soils - technically "regoliths", or loose mixtures of dust, dirt, rocks, and other material - can be easily replicated by tweaking the composition of analogous Earth soils. When grown under standard greenhouse conditions, nine of the ten crops developed more or less equally well in the simulants as in the Earth soil, with overall plant biomass production essentially the same in the Earth soil and the Martian regolith and only somewhat lower in the lunar regolith. "This could result in variable responses of plant populations and soil microbes to climate change in nature", she says, and that "may lead to spatial variation in the ecological and evolutionary outcome of plant-soil microbe interactions". [Extracted from the article]
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Zeitschrift: | Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, Jg. 17 (2019-12-01), Heft 10, S. 548-553 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2019 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1540-9295 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1002/fee.2134 |
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