THE BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUST
Reproduction and Dispersal of Biological Soil Crust Organisms
... DISCUSSION Biological soil crust communities include a variety of organisms that occupy the surface layer of the soil and consolidate soil particles and aggregates into a ...
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Characteristics of Wetting Induced Bacteriophage Blooms in Biological Soil Crust
... IMPORTANCE This work forms part of an overarching research theme studying the effects of a changing climate on biological soil crust (biocrust) in the South- western United States. To our knowledge, ...
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Characteristics of Wetting-Induced Bacteriophage Blooms in Biological Soil Crust.
... IMPORTANCE This work forms part of an overarching research theme studying the effects of a changing climate on biological soil crust (biocrust) in the South- western United States. To our knowledge, ...
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Indices to monitor biological soil crust growth rate lab and field experiments
... 2007. biological soil-crust growth ...of crust development in time, good correlations were found between the variables; in- filtration rates and polysaccharide content (as presented in Figure ...
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Biological soil crust effects and responses in arid ecosystems: recent advances at the species level
... 2013. Biological Soil Crust effects and responses in arid ecosystems: recent advances at the species ...10.7818/ECOS.2013.22-3.13 Biological soil crusts (BSCs) constitute a complex ...
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Diurnal changes in photosynthetic activity of the biological soil crust and lichen: Effects of abiotic factors (Petuniabukta, Svalbard)
... in biological soil crust and a lichen were carried out in Petuniabukta, ...both biological soil crust and a lichen showed daily ...in biological soil crust ...
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Water-mediated changes in plant–plant and biological soil crust–plant interactions in a temperate forest ecosystem
... In some situations, lichens, bryophytes, algae and cyanobacteria can form a cohesive structure on the soil sur- face denominated biological soil crust (BSC; Belnap et al., 2016). The BSC ...
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Functional ecology of the biological soil crust in semiarid SE Spain: sun and shade populations of Diploschistes diacapsis (Ach.) Lumbsch
... a biological soil crust consisting of different types of lichen-rich communities, one of the more conspicuous being dominated by Diploschistes diacapsis ...
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Remote Sensing Time-Series Analysis, Machine Learning, and K-Means Clustering Improves Dryland Vegetation and Biological Soil Crust Classification
... Interestingly, the RF model always predicted some percent biocrust cover (minimum predicted value of 0.4%). This is likely attributable in some capacity to how RF models ‘average’ predicted values over multiple trees. ...
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Long-term changes in biological soil crust cover and composition
... high-quality crust cover across this study site, recovery from small-scale disturbances such as individual fires, presence of invasive species, or mechanical disruption from mammals may have proceeded more rapidly ...
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Ongoing oversanding induces biological soil crust layering – A new approach for biological soil crust structure elucidation determined from high resolution penetration resistance data
... in crust layering. This crust layering can be the result of either horizontal or vertical recolonization after ...to crust organisms inhibiting their functionality (Rao et ...pioneer crust ...
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Biological Soil Crust Microalgae and Cyanobacteria - Key Players in Polar and Alpine Ecosystems
... from soil samples, suitable for HTS, can be difficult due to the presence of humic substances and exocellular RNase activity (Greaves and Wilson, 1970; Rippin et ...
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Annual net primary productivity of a cyanobacteria-dominated biological soil crust in the Gulf Savannah, Queensland, Australia
... ments we did not observe biocrust activity above air temper- atures of 43 ◦ C (Fig. 6b); at this temperatures the biocrust was dry and inactive. During field monitoring the optimal temperature for positive NP was around ...
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Recovery of biological soil crust richness and cover 12–16 years after wildfires in Idaho, USA
... the soil (including short turf mosses, crustose and squamulose lichens; Read et ...to soil because they may dry out more quickly or allow more air circulation dur- ing a ...
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Annual net primary productivity of a cyanobacteria-dominated biological soil crust in the Gulf savannah, Queensland, Australia
... Abstract. Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are a common element of the Queensland (Australia) dry savannah ecosystem 10 and are composed of cyanobacteria, algae, lichens, bryophytes, fungi and ...
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Ecophysiological properties of three biological soil crust types and their photoautotrophs from the Succulent Karoo, South Africa
... Sampling and storage Two different types of biocrusts and bare soil samples were collected for this study. The first biocrust type was dominated by cyanobacteria and cyanolichens (hereaf- ter called ...
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Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing cyanosphere
... of soil microbiome, one in which the primary producers are an essential but certainly far from exclusive part [4, ...varying soil properties influence the biocrust microbiome composition [19], as do ...
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Bridging Post-Wildfire Communication Gaps between Managers, Researchers, and Local Communities, including a Biological Soil Crust Case Study
... on soil erosion and seed retention, thus requiring other costly treatments and/or repeat ...2014). Soil stabilization efforts of rehabilitation may also be negligible in many cases (Pyke et ...
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Living in biological soil crust communities of African deserts—Physiological traits of green algal Klebsormidium species (Streptophyta) to cope with desiccation, light and temperature gradients
... damaging in-situ light field. The resulting differential susceptibil- ity to enhanced photon fluence rates expressed by individual taxa indicates a complex spatial arrangement of the algal species in such a microhabitat, ...
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Improved appreciation of the functioning and importance of biological soil crusts in Europe: the Soil Crust International Project (SCIN)
... 6 Biological soil crusts and typical lichens. a–c Biological soil crust at O ¨ land; b the green algal lichen Thamnolia vermicularis, arctic-alpine lichen; c Squamarina cartilaginea, ...
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