Assessing Level of Development and Successional Stages in Biological Soil Crusts with Biological Indicators

Successional stages of biological soil crusts and their microstructure variability in Shapotou region (China)

(2011) Shubin Lan et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Effects of sand burial stress on the early developments of cyanobacterial crusts in the field

(2011) Benqiang Rao et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Small-Scale Vertical Distribution of Algae and Structure of Lichen Soil Crusts

(2011) Li Wu et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Composition of photosynthetic organisms and diurnal changes of photosynthetic efficiency in algae and moss crusts

(2011) Shubin Lan et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts

(2010) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Non-rainfall water sources in the topsoil and their changes during formation of man-made algal crusts at the eastern edge of Qubqi Desert, Inner Mongolia

(2010) ShuBin Lan et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Ethanol outperforms multiple solvents in the extraction of chlorophyll-a from biological soil crusts

(2010) Shubin Lan et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Extraction of chlorophyll a from biological soil crusts: A comparison of solvents for spectrophotometric determination

(2010) Sarah C. Castle et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Regeneration processes of biological soil crusts, macro-cryptogams and vascular plant species after fine-scale disturbance in a temperate region: Recolonization or successional replacement?

(2009) Tanja Margrit Langhans et al.   FLORA

The effect of biological soil crusts of different successional stages and conditions on the germination of seeds of three desert plants

(2009) Y.-G. Su et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Community Assembly of Biological Soil Crusts of Different Successional Stages in a Temperate Sand Ecosystem, as Assessed by Direct Determination and Enrichment Techniques

(2009) Tanja Margrit Langhans et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Recovery rates of microbiotic crusts within a dune ecosystem in the Negev Desert

(2008) Giora J. Kidron et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Cytochemical changes in the developmental process of Nostoc sphaeroides (cyanobacterium)

(2008) Dunhai Li et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

Visually assessing the level of development and soil surface stability of cyanobacterially dominated biological soil crusts

(2008) J. Belnap et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Southern African Biological Soil Crusts are Ubiquitous and Highly Diverse in Drylands, Being Restricted by Rainfall Frequency

(2008) Burkhard Büdel et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY