Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Fungal spores as a source of sodium salt particles in the Amazon basin

  • Swarup China,
  • Susannah M. Burrows,
  • Bingbing Wang,
  • Tristan H. Harder,
  • Johannes Weis,
  • Meryem Tanarhte,
  • Luciana V. Rizzo,
  • Joel Brito,
  • Glauber G. Cirino,
  • Po-Lun Ma,
  • John Cliff,
  • Paulo Artaxo,
  • Mary K. Gilles,
  • Alexander Laskin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07066-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Salt particles in the Amazon basin are typically attributed to marine aerosols transported from the Atlantic Ocean. Here the authors show the potential importance of fungal spores as a source of sodium-salt particles in the Amazon rainforest.