Interactions of Biological Soil Crusts with Vascular Plants

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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).”
Complex role of the polymeric matrix in biological soil crusts (2018, background): “Studies addressing the effects of BSCs in plant establishment are often contradictory (Zhang et al. 2016).”
Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth (2018, unknown): “Interactions arising between biocrust constituents and vascular plants have received increased interest in recent years (see Zhang et al. 2016 for a review).”
Biocrusts enhance soil fertility and Bromus tectorum growth, and interact with warming to influence germination (2018, background): “Improved growth and nutrient content of both exotic and native plants in the presence of biocrusts has been reported in other systems (Godínez-Alvarez et al. 2012; Zhang et al. 2016), as well as for B.”