Relationships between biological soil crusts, bacterial diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning: Insights from a semi‐arid Mediterranean environment
By Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy, M. Bowker, Fernando T. Maestre, S. Rodríguez‐Echeverría, I. Martínez, Claudia Barraza-Zepeda, C. Escolar. 2011
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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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- Hydrolase enzyme activities in a successional gradient of biological soil crusts in arid and semi-arid zones (2012, unknown): “Other studies have focused on determining the activities of hydrolases such as urease (Bowker et al., 2011; Castillo-Monroy et al., 2011), arylsulphatase (Bolton et al.”
- 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): “…water and wind erosion (Bowker et al., 2008), enhancing soil water retention (Zhang et al., 2008), increasing soil C and N (Green et al., 2008), facilitating vascular plant establishment and growth (Godínez-Alvarez et al., 2012), and promoting soil biodiversity (Castillo-Monroy et al., 2011a).”