Biological Soil Crusts: Structure, Function, and Management

By Richard Felger. Ecological Studies, 2003

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Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover (2010, background): “, soil hydrology and soil stabilization) have been documented previously (Belnap and Lange, 2001; Evans and Johansen, 1999), and arguably the most important of these is nutrient cycling.”
Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands (2012, background): “However, in drylands there is little horizonisation and SOC concentrates close to the surface, often within a surface biological crust (Belnap and Lange, 2003), so alternative sampling is required to deliver accurate SOC measurements.”
Estimating global carbon uptake by lichens and bryophytes with a process-based model (2013, background): “As a part of biological soil crusts, they also populate the surface of desert soils (Belnap and Lange, 2003).”
Micro‐geomorphology determines community structure of biological soil crusts at small scales (2010, neutral): “Landforms, Vol. 35, 932–940 (2010) cold and hot deserts (Belnap and Lange, 2003).”
Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth (2018, neutral): “First, the initial publication in 2001 of an edited volume (Belnap and Lange 2003) served to bring together disparate threads - floristic, biogeographical, physiological, functional, applied - of biocrust research through an ecological lens.”