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Energetic Convergence Drives Metabolic Adaptation in Lirima Chilean High-Altitude Hydrothermal System
Short-term characterisation of climatic-environmental variables and microbial community diversity in a high-altitude Andean wetland (Salar de Huasco, Chile)
Unraveling microbial life from a high-altitude hydrothermal system in the Andes plateau and their potential for nitrogen transformations
Paquis, P., et al. (2025) – Communications Earth & Environment
This study introduces the conceptualization of Energetic Convergence Nodes (ECN) within the Lirima hydrothermal system. By integrating thermodynamic modeling, isotopic analyses, and genome-resolved metagenomics, this research demonstrates that microbial communities under extreme environmental constraints prioritize metabolic flexibility over the maximization of energy yields.
Paquis, P., et al. (2023) – Science of The Total Environment
A comprehensive quantitative characterization of a non-hydrothermal extreme ecosystem. This research correlates short-term climatic and environmental fluctuations with shifts in microbial community diversity, providing robust baseline data to understand climate impacts on biogeochemical cycles in high-Andean salt flats.
Pardo-Esté, C., ..., Paquis, P., et al. (2025) – Engineering Microbiology
This investigation explores the metabolic potential for nitrogen recycling among microbial communities inhabiting extreme high-altitude hot springs. The study highlights the critical hydrogeochemical and geomicrobiological relationships that sustain microbial life at the terrestrial dry limit.
PUBLICATIONS
2025
Paquis, P., Pardo-Esté, C., Tapia, J., Florez, J. Z., Pérez, V., Molina, V., Cornejo-D’Ottone, M., Pérez, P. A., Harrod, C., Jeffre, W. H., Calabrese, S., Quatrini, P., Tassi, F., & Hengst, M. B. (2025). Energetic Convergence Drives Metabolic Adaptation in Lirima Chilean High-Altitude Hydrothermal System. Communications Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02817-w
Pardo-Esté, C., Castro-Severyn, J., Aldridge, J., Alvarez-Saravia, D., Kurte, L., Aguilar-Muñoz, P., Paquis, P., Pérez, V., Medina, D., Jeffrey, W. H., Molina, V., & Hengst, M. B. (2025). Unraveling microbial life from a high-altitude hydrothermal system in the Andes plateau and their potential for nitrogen transformations. Engineering Microbiology, 100242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engmic.2025.100242
2024
Pardo-Esté, C., Cortés, J., Castro-Severyn, J., Pérez, V., Henríquez-Aedo, K., Cuadros, F., Yañez, C., Cuadros-Orellana, S., Dorador, C., Molina, V., Eissler, Y., Paquis, P., Jeffrey, W. H., Pozo, P., Pérez, P. A., & Hengst, M. B. (2024). Secondary metabolites with antimicrobial activity produced by thermophilic bacteria from a high-altitude hydrothermal system. Frontiers in microbiology, 15, 1477458. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1477458
Faragó, V., Megyes, M., Nagy, B., Hengst, M., Paquis, P., & Borsodi, A. K. (2024). Environmental characterization and impact of climatic fluctuations on the diversity of extremophilic bacterial communities of a high-altitude seasonal meltwater pond on Ojos del Salado (Dry Andes, Chile). Geomicrobiology Journal, 41(10), 1008-1017. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2024.2415717
2023
Paquis, P., Hengst, M. B., Florez, J. Z., Tapia, J., Molina, V., Pérez, V., & Pardo-Esté, C. (2023). Short-term characterisation of climatic-environmental variables and microbial community diversity in a high-altitude Andean wetland (Salar de Huasco, Chile). Science of The Total Environment, 859, 160291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160291
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