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Life in extreme environments

Explore how organisms live under particular temperature, salinity or pressure conditions, within their documented limits.

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Life in extreme environments

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A Salt Lagoon Alone Does Not Reveal the Limits of Life

At Vermelha Lagoon in Brazil, microbial mats were observed growing at some stations in a hypersaline ecosystem. This is evidence of activity at that site, not a measure of the maximum salinity those organisms can withstand: the available passage does not identify the mats or specify salt concentrations or survival tests. [5600]