Soil lichen and moss cover and species richness can be highly dynamic: The effects of invasion by the annual exotic grass Bromus tectorum, precipitation, and temperature on biological soil crusts in…

By J. Belnap, S. Phillips, T. Troxler. 2006

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. A. Faist
2. S. Reed
3. Burkhard Büdel
4. J. Belnap
5. B. Weber
6. David C. Housman
7. E. Grote
8. J. Sparks

In Environmental Chemistry

1. A. Faist
2. Burkhard Büdel
3. J. Belnap
4. S. Reed
5. M. Bowker

Citations in the corpus

• Biological Soil Crusts: An Organizing Principle in Drylands (2016, background): “First, a long-term study of lichen dynamics by Belnap et al. (2006) showed that cover values were very dynamic in the short and long term, with cover values changing by up to 10 % from fall to spring (increasing) and spring to fall (declining).”
• The potential roles of biological soil crusts in dryland hydrologic cycles (2006, background): “20, 3159–3178 (2006) DOI: 10.1002/hyp air pollution, herbicides (Zaady et al., 2004; Belnap et al., 2003b), and climate change, including changes in precipitation (Belnap et al., 2004) and increased air temperatures (Belnap et al., 2006).”
• Conversion of sagebrush shrublands to exotic annual grasslands negatively impacts small mammal communities (2009, background): “Although much effort has focused on the effects of B. tectorum invasion on native vegetation and ecosystem processes (e.g. Knapp, 1998; Belnap et al., 2005, 2006; Rimer & Evans, 2006), the impacts on native fauna of conversion from sagebrush communities to cheatgrass-dominated mixed weedy…”
• Biocrusts enhance soil fertility and Bromus tectorum growth, and interact with warming to influence germination (2018, background): “1)—have also been hypothesized to reduce exotic plant invasion in some drylands by acting as a physical barrier between mineral soils and plant seeds (Belnap et al. 2006; Serpe et al. 2006; Deines et al. 2007).”
• Carbon exchange in biological soil crust communities under differential temperatures and soil water contents: implications for global change (2010, background): “Additionally, if any increase in summer precipitation occurs, the time that cool desert crust organisms are metabolically active will increase, driving many into C deficits if the summer precipitation events are small (Belnap et al., 2004, 2006).”