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Maphosa S, Steyn M, Lebre PH, Gokul JK, Convey P, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2025. Rhizosphere bacterial communities of Namib Desert plant species: Evidence of specialised plant-microbe associations. Microbiological Research 293

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León-Sobrino C, Ramond J-B, Coclet C, Kapitango R-M, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2024. Temporal dynamics of microbial transcription in wetted hyperarid desert soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 100

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Cowan DA, Cary SG, DiRuggiero J, Eckardt F, Ferrari B, Hopkins DW, Lebre PH, Maggs-Kölling G, Pointing SB, Ramond J-B, Tribbia D, Warren-Rhodes K 2023. 'Follow the Water': Microbial water acquisition in desert soils. Microorganisms 11

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Vikram S, Ramond J-B, Ortiz M, Maggs-Kölling G, Pelser K, Cowan DA 2023. Soil fungal diversity and assembly along a xeric stress gradient in the central Namib Desert. Fungal Biology 127 (4) 997-1003

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Bosch J, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Ramond J-B, Lebre PH, Eckardt F, Cowan DA 2022. Water inputs across the Namib Desert: implications for dryland edaphic microbiology. Frontiers of Biogeography

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Martinez-Alvarez L, Ramond J-B, Vikram S, León-Sobrino C, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2022. With a pinch of salt: metagenomic insights into Namib Desert salt pan 2 microbial mats and halites reveal functionally adapted and competitive 3 communities. BioRxiv

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Naidoo Y, Valverde A, Pierneef RE, Cowan DA 2022. Differences in precipitation regime shape microbial community composition and functional potential in Namib Desert soils. Soil Microbiology 83 689-701

Qu EB, Omelon CR, Oren A, Meslier V, Cowan DA, Maggs-Kölling G, DiRuggiero J 2020. Trophic selective pressures organize the composition of endolithic microbial communities from global deserts. Frontiers in Microbiology 10

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Crous PW, Cowan DA, Maggs-Kölling G, Yilmaz N, Larsson E, Angelini C, Brandrud TE, Dearnaley JDW, Dima B, Dovana F, Fechner N, García D 2020. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1112–1181. Persoonia 45 (1) 251-409

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Cowan DA, Hopkins DW, Jones BE, Maggs-Kölling G, Majewska R, Ramond J-B 2019. Microbiomics of Namib Desert habitats. Extremophiles 24 17-29

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01122-7

Ramond J-B, Baxter J, Maggs-Kölling G, Martinez-Alvarez L, Read DA, León-Sobrino C, van der Walt AJ, Cowan DA 2019. Microbial ecology of the Namib Desert. Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments: Astrobiology Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond 113-143

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Collins GE, Hogg ID, Baxter JR, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2019. Ancient landscapes of the Namib Desert harbor high levels of genetic variability and deeply divergent lineages for Collembola. Ecology and Evolution 9 4969-4979

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Marasco R, Mosqueira MJ, Fusi M, Ramond J-B, Merlino G, Booth JM, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA, Daffonchio D 2018. Rhizosheath microbial community assembly of sympatric desert speargrasses is independent of the plant host. Microbiome 6 (215)

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León-Sobrino C, Ramond J-B, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan DA 2018. Nutrient acquisition, rather than stress response over diel cycles, drives microbial transcription in a dessicated Namib Desert soil. bioRxiv

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Johnson RM, Ramond J-B, Gunnigle E, Seely M, Cowan DA 2017. Namib Desert edaphic bacterial, fungal and archaeal communities assemble through deterministic processes but are influenced by different abiotic parameters. Extremophiles 21 (1) 381–392

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00792-016-0911-1

van der Walt AJ, Johnson RM, Cowan DA, Seely M, Ramond J-B 2016. Unique microbial phylotypes in Namib Desert dune and gravel plain fairy circle soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiol 82 (15) 4592-4601

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Adriaenssens EM, van Zyl L, de Maayer P, Rubagotti E, Rybicki E, Tuffin M, Cowan DA 2015. Metagenomic analysis of the viral community in Namib Desert hypoliths. Environment Microbiology 17 (2) 480-495

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Gombeer S, Ramond J-B, Eckardt FD, Seely M, Cowan DA 2015. The influence of surface soil physicochemistry on the edaphic bacterial communities in contrasting terrain types of the Central Namib Desert. Geobiology 13 (5) 494-505

Website link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gbi.12144

Makhalanyane TP, Valverde A, Gunnigle E, Frossard A, Ramond J-B, Cowan DA 2015. Microbial ecology of hot desert edaphic systems. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 39 203–221

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Ronca S, Ramond J-B, Jones BE, Seely M, Cowan DA 2015. Namib Desert dune/interdune transects exhibit habitat-specific edaphic bacterial communities. Frontiers in Microbiology (6)

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Frossard A, Ramond J-B, Seely M, Cowan DA 2015. Water regime history drives responses of soil Namib Desert microbial communities to wetting events. Scientific Reports 5

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Ramond J-B, Pienaar A, Armstrong A, Seely M, Cowan DA 2014. Niche-Partitioning of Edaphic Microbial Communities in the Namib Desert Gravel Plain Fairy Circles. Plos ONE 9 (10) e109539

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Stomeo F, Valverde A, Pointing SB, McKay CP, Warren-Rhodes KA, Tuffin MI, Seely M, Cowan DA 2013. Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert. Extremophiles 17 (2) 329-337

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-013-0519-7

Warren-Rhodes KA, Boyle LN, Wing MR, Kiekebusch EM, Cowan DA, Stomeo F, Pointing SB, Kaseke KF, Eckardt F, Henschel JR, Anisfeld A, Seely M, Rhodes K 2013. Physical ecology of hypolithic communities in the central Namib Desert: The role of fog, rain, rock habitat, and light. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 118 (4) 1451-1460

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Kemler M, Wingfield MJ, Cowan DA, Slippers B Foliar fungi of the enigmatic desert plant Welwitschia mirabilis show little adaptation to their unique host plant. South African Journal of Science 117 (3-4) 35-42

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