Biological Soil Crusts
Global NO and HONO emissions of biological soil crusts estimated by a process based non vascular vegetation model
... that biological soil crusts are able to emit large amounts of NO and HONO, and they may therefore play an important role in the global bud- get of these trace ...by biological soil ...
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Estimating Net Photosynthesis of Biological Soil Crusts in the Atacama Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
... Abstract: Biological soil crusts (BSC) encompassing green algae, cyanobacteria, lichens, bryophytes, heterotrophic bacteria and microfungi are keystone species in arid environments because of their ...
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Revisiting chlorophyll extraction methods in biological soil crusts – methodology for determination of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll a + b as compared to previous methods
... Suitable chlorophyll extraction procedures are essential to obtain reliable results, and standardized methods are needed to allow comparison between studies (Schagerl and Künzl, 2007). During the last decades, several ...
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Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria are structured by geography in biological soil crusts across North American arid lands
... Introduction: Biological soil crusts (BSCs) can dominate surface cover in dry lands worldwide, playing an integral role in arid land biogeochemistry, particularly in N fertilization through fixation ...
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Laboratory analysis of the effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on respiration in biological soil crusts
... Dougill, A.J., Stringer, L.C., Leventon, J., Riddell, M., Rueff, H., Spracklen,D., Butt, E., 2012. Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: from forests to rangelands. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. ...
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Succession of N cycling processes in biological soil crusts on a Central European inland dune
... Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are microbial assemblages that occur worldwide and facilitate ecosystem development by nitrogen (N) and carbon accumula- ...
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Biological and microbial activity in biological soil crusts from the Tabernas desert, a sub-arid zone in SE Spain.
... of biological soil crusts (BSCs) in arid and semi-arid zones have been extremely well ...the crusts, even though information about these properties is very important for understanding many of ...
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Unassisted establishment of biological soil crusts on dryland road slopes
... as biological soil crusts or biocrust communities (e.g., soil lichens, mosses and cyanobacteria) in newly formed habitats is not yet fully ...improve soil structure and function at the ...
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Uncovering biological soil crusts: carbon content and structure of intact Arctic, Antarctic and alpine biological soil crusts
... These frequently diverse cyanobacterial communities within a BSC can be categorized into three major groups based on functional traits (Weber et al., 2016) found in hot and cold deserts worldwide (Lacap-Bulger et al., ...
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Biological soil crusts in a northeastern pine barren: Composition and ecological effects
... successfully. Crusts are able to alter available nutrients (Belnap 2003), and certain BSCs have been documented as having a slightly alkaline pH (Liu et ...with crusts having positive (Hawkes 2004, ...
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Moss-dominated biological soil crusts improve stability of soil organic carbon on the Loess Plateau, China
... cal environment by converting unsuitable sloping farmlands to forests or grasslands (Deng et al. 2017). Subsequently, extensive biocrusts were formed on open spaces of revegetated lands. The total biocrust coverage is ...
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Regional-scale relationship among biological soil crusts, invasive annual grasses, and disturbance
... Recovery of biocrusts from disturbance may be less well understood than had originally been presumed; recovery is often said to require hundreds of years. Recovery rates are likely correlated with duration and ...
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Ecological characterization of soil-inhabiting and hypolithic soil crusts within the Knersvlakte, South Africa
... Biological soil crusts (BSC) are well known to occur in hot and cold deserts and semi-deserts throughout the ...the soil (Belnap et ...bryophyte-dominated soil crusts (Büdel et ...
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The influence of litter crusts on soil properties and hydrological processes in a sandy ecosystem
... for biological soil crusts (biocrusts) to form (Li et ...are soil surface commu- nities composed of microscopic and macroscopic poikilohy- dric organisms, are globally widespread and are an ...
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The effect of spruce stand thinning on biological activity in soil
... basal soil respiration (BaR) showed the highest degree of CO 2 release from the ...of soil microflora to glucose addition (GIR) as a source of easily utilisable carbon reached the highest values in the FD ...
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The influence of heavy metals on soil biological and chemical properties
... of soil prepared in laboratory, the others use the soil from the real contaminated ...the soil ecosystem and it is necessary to take into account that single microbial characteristic can not be used ...
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Impact of the biological fertilizers on the microorganisms and the nutrient elements in the soil
... The soil reaction is from neutral to slightly alkaline, as it varies within the interval pH ...g soil) and Extrasol + Herbagreen ...the biological products are reported at Extrasol ...the ...
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The Influence of Heated Soil in Crop of “Tamaris” Tomato Plants on the Biological Activity of the Rhizosphere Soil
... The soil temperature didn’t have a significant impact on the growth of the tomato root system (Figure 4(a)). Although, tomato roots of all the control treatments showed the highest root morphological parameters. ...
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Effect of soil washing with biodegradable chelators on the toxicity of residual metals and soil biological properties
... the soil microbial activity (Udovic and Lestan, 2012; Chae et ...2017). Soil enzyme activities and microbial biomass are consid- ered to be bio-indicators because of their rapid response and sensitivity to ...
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The characterization of the soil biological quality of organic viticulture can be achieved by analyzing soil nematofauna
... in biological functioning when changing agricultural ...on biological soil quality were ...96 soil samples (four samples per plot) taken from the surface layer of soil (0-15 ...the ...
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