Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover

By S. Bates, T. Nash, Ken G. Sweat, F. Garcia-Pichel. 2010

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Moss-dominated biocrusts increase soil microbial abundance and community diversity and improve soil fertility in semi-arid climates on the Loess Plateau of China (2017, background): “On the other hand, it has been reported that the richness and community diversity of bacteria/fungi increased with the age and successional stages of biocrusts (in order of cyanobacteria, algae, lichen, and moss) (Redfield et al., 2002; Zhang et al., 2009; Bates et al., 2010; Grishkan et al., 2015).”
Impact of inorganic nitrogen additions on microbes in biological soil crusts (2015, background): “Cyanobacteria, eukaryotic microalgae, fungi, mosses, bacteria and archaea are involved in the assembly of BSCs (Bates et al., 2010).”
Differences in thallus chemistry are related to species-specific effects of biocrust-forming lichens on soil nutrients and microbial communities (2015, background): “For example, the degree of biocrust development affects the abundance and/or activity of both broad (e.g. fungi; Bates et al. 2010) and functional [e.”