Argentinian-Chilean microbiologist Julieta Orlando is studying the past, present and future of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic biodiversity, including the microorganisms that could help us understand the impact of climate change on these ecosystems.
Orlando, who is an associate professor at the Universidad de Chile and Deputy Director of the Millennium Institute BASE (Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic Ecosystems), says that learning about the distribution patterns of microorganisms, their interactions with other living things, their metabolic activities and how all these characteristics are affected by environmental changes is essential to the overall understanding the functioning of ecosystems…
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