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Today we take another look at isolated environments to learn how islands can arise even when surrounded by vast seas of desert!

Sources / Further Reading:

Sierra de la Laguna

https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/sierra-de-la-laguna-pine-oak-forests/
https://en.unesco.org/biosphere/lac/sierra-la-laguna

https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/nt0227

https://tosea.net/the-sierra-de-la-laguna-biosphere-reserve-bajas-island-in-the-sky/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41424739

https://bashanfoundation.org/contributions/Ortega-A/ortegaoakpine.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mbi-Honey-Escandon/publication/230709948_Phylogeographic_patterns_of_differentiation_in_the_Acorn_Woodpecker/links/563273e608ae242468d9f817/Phylogeographic-patterns-of-differentiation-in-the-Acorn-Woodpecker.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cape-Region-vegetation-community-type-The-Sierra-La-Laguna-Biosphere-Reserve-SLLBR_fig1_342638855
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-forest-types-in-the-Sierra-de-la-Laguna-Biosphere-Reserve-in-the-southern_fig1_237151825
https://amphibian-reptile-conservation.org/pdfs/Volume/Vol_17_nos_1-2/ARC_17_1-2_[General_Section]_57-142_e326_high_res.pdf
https://lacgeo.com/sierra-laguna-biosphere-reserve
https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/sierra-de-la-laguna-dry-forests/

McMurdo Valleys

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JG005153

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-013-0296-y

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/3/3/466

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/abs/lithic-microbial-ecosystems-of-antarcticas-mcmurdo-dry-valleys/0EFA8DDEF1D10D6A0B3C87BD2537E31F

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Diatom-species-confirmed-from-the-McMurdo-Dry-Valleys-authorship-and-year-and_tbl1_237448827

https://ictar.aq/dry-valleys-biology/

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/13/10/506

https://mcm.lternet.edu/content/biogeography-and-genetic-diversity-terrestrial-mites-ross-sea-region-antarctica

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a162/8af6425c20e37b20d0137317c64b8c689b38.pdf

https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1995.tb02723.x

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/12/450

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/13/10/506

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/14/3/606

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zsc.12490

https://communities.springernature.com/posts/when-were-the-mcmurdo-dry-valleys-of-antarctica-last-wet

https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/8cb497c6-7f74-4e4a-b048-8e9fa23695fe/content

https://glaciers.pdx.edu/fountain/MyPapers/FountainEtAl2014_LandscapeAtRisk_DryValleysAntarctica.pdf

https://journalofbiogeographynews.org/2021/06/30/history-and-genetic-diversity-of-the-most-common-antarctic-lichens/

https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/8cb497c6-7f74-4e4a-b048-8e9fa23695fe/content

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jbi.14101

https://asm2015.lternet.edu/content/taxonomic-and-ecological-diversity-mcmurdo-dry-valley-tardigrades/index.html

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/tough-tardigrades/journals/2017-01-09

https://www.sci.muni.cz/CPR/LP222012/LP-2_2-6.htm

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266651582200018X#:~:text=There%20are%2012%20species%20of,et%20al.%2C%202017).

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Breeding-distribution-of-brown-Stercorarius-lonnbergi-and-south-polar-skuas-S_fig1_284067959

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/McMurdo-Dry-Valleys-Antarctica-Labeled-areas-represent-study-locations-and-major_fig2_264038744

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-017-2127-y

https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Ent-Mitt-Zool-Mus-Hamburg_10_0043-0056.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10048765/

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Distribution-of-springtail-species-shown-as-coloured-dots-with-ellipses-indicating_fig1_369438305

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Onyx-river-flowing-westward-between-the-Asgaard-and-Olympus-Ranges-from-the_fig2_276158257

https://environments.aq/publications/diversity-of-antarctic-lakes-ponds-and-streams/

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