Biological Soil Crust Microsites Are the Main Contributor to Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Ecosystem

By Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy, Fernando T. Maestre, A. Rey, S. Soliveres, P. García‐Palacios. Ecosystems, 2011

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Bowker
2. Fernando T. Maestre
3. R. Ochoa-Hueso
4. Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy
5. A. Antoninka
6. S. Reed
7. Kyle D. Doherty
8. L. Gómez‐Aparicio

In Environmental Chemistry

1. Fernando T. Maestre
2. M. Bowker
3. A. Antoninka
4. S. Reed
5. Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy

Citations in the corpus

• Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern (2012, background): “Given that gypsum soils from central Spain usually remain dry for long periods (Castillo-Monroy et al. 2011) and, therefore, those organisms living on them (including microbial communities forming part of the native BSC) are used to rewetting and drying processes, we considered measuring N fixation…”
• Production of greenhouse‐grown biocrust mosses and associated cyanobacteria to rehabilitate dryland soil function (2016, background): “This is because biocrusts are the fundamental members of dryland communities, contributing significantly to soil erosion resistance, hydrological function, and biogeochemical cycling (Belnap 2002; Chaudhary et al. 2009; Castillo-Monroy et al. 2011; Chamizo et al. 2012; Bowker et al. 2013).”