Biological Soil Crust Rehabilitation in Theory and Practice: An Underexploited Opportunity

By M. Bowker. 2007

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

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Biological soil crusts in ecological restoration: emerging research and perspectives (2020, background): “Bowker (2007) provides the foundation for a hierarchy of barriers to restoration success, where success is only achieved if the highest barrier is addressed in the restoration plan.”
Biological soil crust development and its topsoil properties in the process of dune stabilization, Inner Mongolia, China (2008, background): “However, BSCs are rarely considered in the restoration literature (Bowker 2007).”
Production of greenhouse‐grown biocrust mosses and associated cyanobacteria to rehabilitate dryland soil function (2016, background): “We can envision several barriers to biocrust establishment in the field, including active soil erosion or deposition and resource limitations (Bowker 2007).”
Impact of inorganic nitrogen additions on microbes in biological soil crusts (2015, background): “, soil hydrological, soil biological and geochemical processes and ecological rehabilitation) have beenwell documented (Belnap, 2006; Bowker, 2007; Li et al., 2007; Moquin et al., 2012).”
Micro‐geomorphology determines community structure of biological soil crusts at small scales (2010, neutral): “…BSCs in arid desert ecosystems has been clearly documented by recent studies (West, 1990; Eldridge and Greene, 1994; Patrick, 2002; Li et al., 2006; Bowker, 2007), in which BSCs are considered as desert ecosystem engineers, i.e. organisms that physically modify, maintain, or create habitats for…”
Nursing biocrusts: isolation, cultivation, and fitness test of indigenous cyanobacteria (2019, background): “…10.1111/rec.12920 Supporting information at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.12920/suppinfo July 2019 Restoration Ecology Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 793–803 793 To reverse these deleterious effects, there is a clear need to develop biocrust restoration approaches (reviewed by Bowker 2007).”
Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover (2010, background): “As such, the well documented sensitivity of BSCs to human activities (Barger et al., 2006; Belnap, 2002; Belnap and Eldridge, 2001; Belnap et al., 2007; Bowker, 2007; Evans and Belnap, 1999; Neff et al., 2005) and climate change (Schwinning et al.”
Complex role of the polymeric matrix in biological soil crusts (2018, background): “…the exchange of gases and nutrients (Pointing and Belnap 2012; Weber et al. 2015), play important ecological functions (Bowker et al. 2011; Maestre et al. 2011) and provide soil stability and N-enrichment, two key factors supporting vascular plants establishment (Bowker 2007; Miralles et al. 2012).”
Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth (2018, neutral): “Fortunately this has changed in recent years, and biocrust researchers are now tackling the complexity of interactions in which their constituent organisms are involved (Bowker 2007; Lindo and Gonzalez 2010).”