Díaz F. P., Dussarrat T., Carrasco-Puga G., Colombié S., Prigent S., Decros G., Bernillon S., Cassan C., Flandin A., Guerrero P. C., Gibon Y., Rolin D., Cavieres L. A., Pétriacq P., Latorre C., Gutiérrez R. A., Ecological and metabolic implications of the nurse effect of Maihueniopsis camachoi in the Atacama Desert, New Phytologist, 2024, 241(3):1074-1087, doi: 10.1111/nph.19415
A field and metabolomic study of the role of Maihueniopsis camachoi as a nurse plant. It compares vegetation cover, soil temperature and the metabolite composition of associated plants along an elevational gradient in the Atacama. It analyses the cactus's relationship with Atriplex imbricata in detail.