Biological Soil Crusts: An Organizing Principle in Drylands

By B. Weber, Burkhard Büdel, J. Belnap. Ecological Studies, 2016

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

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Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth (2018, unknown): “The second edited volume, focused on synthesizing the flurry of research that followed the first book (Weber et al. 2016), was recently published and we fully expect it to continue stimulating and guiding research on biocrusts globally.”
The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state – An interdisciplinary review (2020, background): “This potential extent of land vegetation is an overestimate, especially if lichens evolved later as they provide soil stability for bryophytes (Nelsen et al., 2019; Weber et al., 2016).”
Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta‐analysis (2019, background): “In recent decades, a growing number of individual studies have investigated biocrust effects on plant species performance worldwide (Belnap et al., 2003; Zhang et al., 2016).”
Biological soil crusts decrease erodibility by modifying inherent soil properties on the Loess Plateau, China (2017, background): “Biocrusts consist of microscopic (cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, and bacteria) and macroscopic (lichens, mosses) poikilohydric organisms that occur on or within the top few centimetres of the soil surface (Belnap et al., 2016).”
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): “According to the dominating components and successional development, biocrusts are usually classified as cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)-, green algae-, soil lichen-, or moss-dominated biocrusts (Belnap et al., 2016).”