The Diversity and Abundance of Bacteria and Oxygenic Phototrophs in Saline Biological Desert Crusts in Xinjiang, Northwest China

Targeted and shotgun metagenomic approaches provide different descriptions of dryland soil microbial communities in a manipulated field study

(2012) Blaire Steven et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Effects of drought and salt stresses on man-made cyanobacterial crusts

(2010) Shubin Lan et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Bacterial diversity, pigments and nitrogen fixation of biological desert crusts from the Sultanate of Oman

(2010) Raeid M.M. Abed et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rain infiltration and crust formation in the extreme arid zone of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2009) Wanda L. Davis et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

A culture-independent study of free-living fungi in biological soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau: their diversity and relative contribution to microbial biomass

(2008) Scott T. Bates et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

CO2 absorption by alkaline soils and its implication to the global carbon cycle

(2008) Jingxia Xie et al.   Environmental geology.