Disturbance and Recovery of Biological Soil Crusts

By J. Belnap, D. Eldridge. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Chemistry

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Nursing biocrusts: isolation, cultivation, and fitness test of indigenous cyanobacteria (2019, background): “Unfortunately, biocrusts are very susceptible to trampling associated with human activities (Belnap & Eldridge 2001; Zaady et al. 2016).”
Biological soil crusts greatly contribute to small-scale soil heterogeneity along a grazing gradient (2013, background): “As a response to disturbance a dominance ranking of biological components has been described with mosses < crustose lichens < cyanobacteria increasing their resistance to mechanical disturbance by trampling (Belnap and Eldridge, 2003; Muscha and Hild, 2006).”
Impact of inorganic nitrogen additions on microbes in biological soil crusts (2015, background): “BSCs are widespread in arid and semi-arid lands, and approximately onethird of the Earth's terrestrial surface is arid or semi-arid land where BSC coverage can be as high as 70% in some areas (Belnap and Eldridge, 2001).”
Biological Soil Crust Rehabilitation in Theory and Practice: An Underexploited Opportunity (2007, background): “Recovery time is partially dependent on precipitation, thus will be shorter in relatively mesic systems (Belnap & Eldridge 2003).”
Soil nematode communities are ecologically more mature beneath late- than early-successional stage biological soil crusts (2007, background): “Furthermore, composition of microfloral communities can distinguish biological soil crusts along a gradient from early-successional, cyanobacteria-dominated crusts to late-successional, lichen- and/or moss-dominated crusts (Johansen et al., 1984; Belnap and Eldridge, 2001).”
Biological soil crust and disturbance controls on surface hydrology in a semi-arid ecosystem (2017, background): “Our study suggests that the disturbance of dark well-developed biocrusts through anthropogenic forces (Belnap and Eldridge 2001, Duniway et al. 2010, Duniway and Herrick 2011) may have greater adverse effects than the disturbance of less-developed light biocrusts.”
Biological soil crusts and their microenvironment: Impact on emergence, survival and establishment of seedlings (2009, background): “…extent (Lange et al., 1992), whereas disturbances first result in a reduction of diversity and phytomass of vascular plant species as well as crust organisms (e.g. Anderson et al., 1982; Belnap and Eldridge, 2001; Belnap and Warren, 2002; Belnap et al., 2007; Li et al., 2006; Ullmann et al., 2007).”
Small-scale patterns of abundance of mosses and lichens forming biological soil crusts in two semi-arid gypsum environments (2006, background): “Despite the fact that El Plano receives substantially less rainfall than Belinchón, the composition of the biological crusts at the former site was characterised by a relatively high cover of mosses, which are generally considered dominant constituents of well conserved and late-successional crusts ”
Complex role of the polymeric matrix in biological soil crusts (2018, background): “The excretion of EPS is an important physiological process from the first stage of BSC development, when bare soil is colonized by sheathed filamentous cyanobacteria (Belnap and Eldridge 2001).”
Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover (2010, background): “As such, the well documented sensitivity of BSCs to human activities (Barger et al., 2006; Belnap, 2002; Belnap and Eldridge, 2001; Belnap et al., 2007; Bowker, 2007; Evans and Belnap, 1999; Neff et al., 2005) and climate change (Schwinning et al.”