The potential roles of biological soil crusts in dryland hydrologic cycles

By J. Belnap. 2006

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

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Germination and seedling establishment of two annual grasses on lichen-dominated biological soil crusts (2007, background): “muscorum tend to absorb lesser amounts of water (Belnap 2006; Blum 1973).”
Biological soil crusts greatly contribute to small-scale soil heterogeneity along a grazing gradient (2013, background): “BSCs contribute importantly to soil fertility and soil water retention, thus favouring plant productivity and the overall spatial patterns of ecosystem processes (Belnap and Harper, 1995; Maestre et al., 2005; Belnap, 2006).”
Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta‐analysis (2019, background): “Biocrusts additionally modify soil microclimate via alteration of soil hydrology (Belnap, 2006; Chamizo, Belnap, Eldridge, Cantón, & Issa, 2016; Concostrina-Zubiri, Molla, Velizarova, & Branquinho, 2017; Faist, Herrick, Belnap, Van Zee, & Barger, 2017) and surface temperature (Concostrina-Zubiri et…”
Biological soil crust and disturbance controls on surface hydrology in a semi-arid ecosystem (2017, background): “Disturbance of biocrust communities at the soil surface may alter runoff and infiltration dynamics and can be highly dependent on levels of biocrust development (e.g., Warren 2001, Belnap 2006, Chamizo et al. 2012a, b, 2016).”
Translocation of nitrogen and carbon integrates biotic crust and grass production in desert grassland (2008, background): “Light crusts are often dominated by the cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus and are common in water-limited systems between widely spaced vascular plants (Belnap & Lange 2001; Bowker et al. 2002, Belnap 2006).”
Micro‐geomorphology determines community structure of biological soil crusts at small scales (2010, neutral): “…1990), increasing pH in the surrounding soil medium (Garcia-Pichel and Belnap, 1996), and indirectly changing micro-geomorphology of soil surface (Csotonyi and Addicott, 2004) via generating physical structure (Jones et al., 1994), increasing soil stability and infl uencing runoff (Belnap, 2006).”
Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils (2010, background): “The many functions of BSCs have been the subject of several extensive reviews (e.g. West, 1990; Evans and Johansen,1999; Belnap, 2006) and amajor topic of one book (Belnap and Lange, 2003), thus we recount themajor ones only briefly here: 1.”
Biological Soil Crust Microsites Are the Main Contributor to Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Ecosystem (2011, background): “They also affect multiple ecosystem functions, including soil stability and erosion (Bowker and others 2008; Chaudhary and others 2009), infiltration and runoff (Belnap 2006; Eldridge and others 2010), nitrogen fixation and cycling (Belnap 2002; Delgado-Baquerizo and others 2010; Maestre and others ”
Moss-dominated biocrusts increase soil microbial abundance and community diversity and improve soil fertility in semi-arid climates on the Loess Plateau of China (2017, background): “On the other hand, they give strong influences on hydrological processes through enhancing or weakening soil infiltration and runoff production depending from the species composition (Belnap, 2006; Yair et al., 2011).”
Do biological soil crusts determine vegetation changes in sandy deserts? Implications for managing artificial vegetation (2010, background): “In these studies, it has been emphasized that microtopography of the soil surface plays a huge role in whether a crust increases or decreases water infiltration (West, 1990; Eldridge, 1993; Belnap, 2006).”
Biological soil crust development affects physicochemical characteristics of soil surface in semiarid ecosystems (2012, background): “This BSC layer in the boundary between atmosphere and soil therefore plays a major role in infiltration and runoff, evaporation and soil moisture (Belnap, 2006).”
Biological Soil Crusts in the Mojave Desert, USA: Micromorphology and Pedogenesis (2012, background): “…by impacting particle detachment and transport (McKenna Neuman et al., 1996; Miralles-Mellado et al., 2011), water and energy balances (Belnap, 2006), soil fertility (Kleiner and Harper, 1977; Evans and Belnap, 1999), and plant community establishment (Li et al., 2005; Escudero et…”
Biological soil crusts decrease erodibility by modifying inherent soil properties on the Loess Plateau, China (2017, background): “They also influence hydrology by determining soil surface structure and morphology (Eldridge et al., 2000; Belnap, 2006; Belnap et al., 2012), enhance soil fertility by fixing atmospheric carbon and nitrogen (Belnap, 2002, 2003; Zhao et al., 2010), and perform other functions.”