Biological Soil Crusts and Ecosystem Nitrogen and Carbon Dynamics

By R. D. Evans, O. Lange. 2001

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Micro‐geomorphology determines community structure of biological soil crusts at small scales (2010, unknown): “In addition, they may play an important role in the carbon cycling of desert ecosystems as a result of their carbon-fi xation ability (Evans and Lange, 2003; Housman et al., 2006).”
• Common and distinguishing features of the bacterial and fungal communities in biological soil crusts and shrub root zone soils (2014, background): “Biocrusts can cover up to 70% of the dryland surface soil and they provide many important ecosystem functions, such as moisture trapping, nitrogen fixation, and soil stabilization (Evans and Lange, 2001; Lange, 2001; Langhans et al., 2009).”
• Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover (2010, unknown): “(Evans and Lange, 2001).”
• 2 Opportunistic Growth and Desiccation Tolerance: The Ecological Success of Poikilohydrous Autotrophs (2007, background): “The annual carbon production of soil crusts with dominating lichens can be comparatively high with 12–37 g C m 2 year 1 in Arizona and Utah and in the Namib fog desert approximately 32 g C m 2 year 1 (Evans and Lange 2001).”
• Carbon exchange in biological soil crust communities under differential temperatures and soil water contents: implications for global change (2010, background): “For example, later successional (dark) biocrusts can contain mosses and lichens that enhance CO2 flux and N fixation compared with early successional (light) Microcoleus cyanobacterial-only biocrusts (Belnap 2001; Evans and Lange 2001; Lange 2001).”