Biological Soil Crusts as Soil Stabilizers

By J. Belnap, Burkhard Büdel. 2016

126 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Earth-Surface Processes

1. M. Bowker

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1. G. Mugnai
2. Federico Rossi
3. R. De Philippis
4. M. Bowker

Citations in the corpus

• Biological soil crusts decrease erodibility by modifying inherent soil properties on the Loess Plateau, China (2017, background): “On clay and sandy soils, two to five times as much sediment, was collected from the uncrusted compared to biocrusted soils (Belnap and Büdel, 2016).”
• Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta‐analysis (2019, unknown): “Where they occur, biocrusts positively influence soil structure and physical stability (Belnap & Büdel, 2016; Bowker, Belnap, Chaudhary, & Johnson, 2008; Zhang, Wang, Wang, Yang, & Zhang, 2006).”
• Complex role of the polymeric matrix in biological soil crusts (2018, background): “Organized in Blarge bodies^ (~100 μm), sheaths bind soil particles stabilizing soil against erosion by wind or water (Belnap and Büdel 2016; Belnap and Gardner 1993).”