This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background and aims Despite the important role of biological soil crusts in the soil carbon cycles of desert ecosystems, the responses of soil ...

The cyanobacteria-based crust can withstand winds of 22mph, it is slated to reclaim up to 6,667 hectares in Ningxia over the ...

Orange bucket and pie server in hand, Jane Brady stopped. The ground inside Scottsdale's McDowell Sonoran Preserve was littered with bleached-out rocks, speckled with clusters of black dirt. "Look at ...

Arid and semiarid ecosystems make up approximately 41% of Earth’s terrestrial surface and are suggested to regulate the trend and interannual variability of the global terrestrial carbon (C) sink.

Biological soil crusts, known as biocrusts, are lichens, algae, mosses, fungi, and cyanobacteria common on the soil surface.[i]They are critical to arid ecosystems, where they help to reduce soil ...

Biocrusts play a crucial role in maintaining soil health and ecosystem sustainability, but they are currently under assault. Human activities including agriculture, urbanization, and off-road vehicle ...

Lichens that help hold together soil crusts in arid lands around the world are dying off as the climate warms, new research shows. That would lead deserts to expand and also would affect areas far ...

Biological soil crust, or biocrust, on dryland near Winnemucca, Nevada, on the Great Basin. The metal quadrat (a square meter) is used in surveying the functional groups of the biocrust and ...

Eighty-five miles from the small town of Moab, Utah, located on the Colorado Plateau in the southwest of the US, soil ecologist Rebecca Finger-Higgens is hopscotching on copper-toned sandstone to ...

In the arid regions of the American Southwest, an unseen world lies beneath our feet. Biocrusts, or biological soil crusts, are communities of living organisms. These industrious microbes include ...