Biological soil crusts increase the resistance of soil nitrogen dynamics to changes in temperatures in a semi-arid ecosystem

Biological Soil Crust Microsites Are the Main Contributor to Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Ecosystem

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Assessment of the spatial distribution of soil microbial communities in patchy arid and semi-arid landscapes of the Negev Desert using combined PLFA and DGGE analyses

(2011) Eric A. Ben-David et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Responses and feedbacks of coupled biogeochemical cycles to climate change: examples from terrestrial ecosystems

(2011) Adrien C Finzi et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain

(2011) F.T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Relationships between biological soil crusts, bacterial diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning: Insights from a semi-arid Mediterranean environment

(2011) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Dissolved Organic Nitrogen in Mediterranean Ecosystems

(2011) M. DELGADO-BAQUERIZO et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Nitrogen Mineralization in Soils Related to Initial Extractable Organic Nitrogen: Effect of Temperature and Time

(2010) Mabel M. Bregliani et al.   COMMUNICATIONS IN SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT ANALYSIS

Nitrifiers and denitrifiers respond rapidly to changed moisture and increasing temperature in a pristine forest soil

(2010) Ute Szukics et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Carbon exchange in biological soil crust communities under differential temperatures and soil water contents: implications for global change

(2010) EDMUND E. GROTE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities

(2010) F. T. Maestre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: insights from a Mediterranean grassland

(2010) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Drylands in the Earth System

(2010) D. S. Schimel   SCIENCE

Depolymerization and mineralization rates at 12 Mediterranean sites with varying soil N availability. A test for the Schimel and Bennett model

(2010) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Storage Effects on Biochemical Properties of Air-Dried Soil Samples from Southeastern Spain

(2009) Raúl Zornoza et al.   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Archaeal populations in biological soil crusts from arid lands in North America

(2009) Tanya Soule et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Temperature dependence of soil CO2 efflux is strongly modulated by seasonal patterns of moisture availability in a Mediterranean ecosystem

(2009) M. Almagro et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plants and biological soil crusts modulate the dominance of N forms in a semi-arid grassland

(2009) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Global change and biological soil crusts: effects of ultraviolet augmentation under altered precipitation regimes and nitrogen additions

(2008) JAYNE BELNAP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil degradation in central Spain due to sheet water erosion by low-intensity rainfall events

(2007) M. J. Marques et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS