Frost Sentinels
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Water, global warming, glaciers, fungi, pathogensAbstract
Nicté-Ha was a little mestizo girl, who lived in a village immersed in the hot tropical jungle of Yucatán, Mexico. Her name, so true to her culture, was inspired by aquatic plants: nymphs (nikte' = flower; ja' = water) (Barrera-Vázquez, 1980).
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