Biological Soil Crusts as an Organizing Principle in Drylands

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

200 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. A. Antoninka
2. F. Garcia-Pichel
3. E. Rodríguez‐Caballero
4. Ana Giraldo‐Silva
5. C. Nelson
6. Nichole Barger
7. A. Faist

In Environmental Chemistry

1. F. Garcia-Pichel
2. Ana Giraldo‐Silva
3. C. Nelson
4. Nichole Barger
5. A. Antoninka
6. A. Faist

Citations in the corpus

• Nursing biocrusts: isolation, cultivation, and fitness test of indigenous cyanobacteria (2019, background): “In drylands, the soil surface can be colonized by microorganisms that form a top crust, known as biological soil crust (“biocrust”) (see Garcia-Pichel 2003, for a primer, and Belnap et al. 2016, for a monograph).”
• Biological soil crusts in ecological restoration: emerging research and perspectives (2020, background): “Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are a community of interacting organisms, including cyanobacteria, algae, lichens, and bryophytes that live in and bind the topmillimeters ofmineral soil (Belnap et al. 2016).”