Polyphasic evaluation of key cyanobacteria in biocrusts from the most arid region in Europe

Diversity of biocrust-forming cyanobacteria in a semiarid gypsiferous site from Central Spain

(2018) Concha Cano-Díaz et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Restoring soil functions by means of cyanobacteria inoculation: Importance of soil conditions and species selection

(2018) José Raúl Román et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Dryland photoautotrophic soil surface communities endangered by global change

(2018) Emilio Rodriguez-Caballero et al.   Nature Geoscience

Establishing rates of lateral expansion of cyanobacterial biological soil crusts for optimal restoration

(2018) Kira Sorochkina et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Cyanobacterial biocrust diversity in Mediterranean ecosystems along a latitudinal and climatic gradient

(2018) M. Ángeles Muñoz-Martín et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Strong in combination: Polyphasic approach enhances arguments for cold-assigned cyanobacterial endemism

(2018) Patrick Jung et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Biological soil crusts along a climatic gradient in Chile: Richness and imprints of phototrophic microorganisms in phosphorus biogeochemical cycling

(2018) Karen Baumann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Several problems of the polyphasic approach in the modern cyanobacterial system

(2017) Jiří Komárek   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Biocrust morphology is linked to marked differences in microbial community composition

(2017) Angela M. Chilton et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Cyanobacterial diversity and toxicity of biocrusts from the Caspian Lowland loess deposits, North Iran

(2017) Tamara Dulić et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Highly divergent 16S rRNA sequences in ribosomal operons of Scytonema hyalinum (Cyanobacteria)

(2017) Jeffrey R. Johansen et al.   PLoS One

Microbial Nursery Production of High-Quality Biological Soil Crust Biomass for Restoration of Degraded Dryland Soils

(2016) Sergio Velasco Ayuso et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The combination of quarry restoration strategies in semiarid climate induces different responses in biochemical and microbiological soil properties

(2016) Lourdes Luna et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Restoration techniques affect soil organic carbon, glomalin and aggregate stability in degraded soils of a semiarid Mediterranean region

(2016) Lourdes Luna et al.   CATENA

Biocrusts positively affect the soil water balance in semiarid ecosystems

(2016) Sonia Chamizo et al.   Ecohydrology

A polyphasic approach for the taxonomy of cyanobacteria: principles and applications

(2016) Jiří Komárek   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Should ecomorphs be conserved? The case of Nostoc flagelliforme, an endangered extremophile cyanobacteria

(2016) Marina Aboal et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Climate change: The 2015 Paris Agreement thresholds and Mediterranean basin ecosystems

(2016) J. Guiot et al.   SCIENCE

Penetration resistance of biological soil crusts and its dynamics after crust removal: Relationships with runoff and soil detachment

(2015) S. Chamizo et al.   CATENA

Cyanobacterial composition and spatial distribution based on pyrosequencing data in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Northwestern China

(2015) Bingchang Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGY

Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria

(2015) Richard Baran et al.   Nature Communications

Cyanobacteria in the Australian northern savannah detect the difference between intermittent dry season and wet season rain

(2014) Wendy J. Williams et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology

(2014) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Analyses of dryland biological soil crusts highlight lichens as an important regulator of microbial communities

(2014) Stefanie Maier et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Seven new species ofOculatella(Pseudanabaenales, Cyanobacteria): taxonomically recognizing cryptic diversification

(2014) Karina Osorio-Santos et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Dynamics of organic carbon losses by water erosion after biocrust removal

(2014) Yolanda Cantón et al.   Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

Biodiversity of soil cyanobacteria in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert, Chile

(2014) Dominik J. Patzelt et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Cyanobacterial Diversity in Biological Soil Crusts along a Precipitation Gradient, Northwest Negev Desert, Israel

(2014) Martin Hagemann et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Heterocytous cyanobacteria of the Ulu Peninsula, James Ross Island, Antarctica

(2014) Jiří Komárek et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Polyphasic characterization of Trichocoleus desertorum sp. nov. (Pseudanabaenales, Cyanobacteria) from desert soils and phylogenetic placement of the genus Trichocoleus

(2014) Radka Muhlsteinova et al.   Phytotaxa

Dryland soil microbial communities display spatial biogeographic patterns associated with soil depth and soil parent material

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust

(2013) Lara Rajeev et al.   ISME Journal

Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity of Cyanobacteria in Biological Soil Crusts of the Succulent Karoo and Nama Karoo of Southern Africa

(2013) Stephanie Dojani et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Some Like It Hot, Some Not

(2013) J. Belnap   SCIENCE

Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities

(2013) F. Garcia-Pichel et al.   SCIENCE

Hydrology in a patterned landscape is co-engineered by soil-disturbing animals and biological crusts

(2013) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The subaerophytic cyanobacteriumOculatella subterranea(Oscillatoriales, Cyanophyceae)gen. et sp. nov.: a cytomorphological and molecular description

(2012) Gabrielle Zammit et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Surrogate descriptors of C-storage processes on crusted semiarid ecosystems

(2012) I. Miralles et al.   GEODERMA

Effects of biological soil crusts on surface roughness and implications for runoff and erosion

(2012) Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Polyphasic characterization of benthic cyanobacterial diversity from biofilms of the Guadarrama river (Spain): morphological, molecular, and ecological approaches1

(2012) Virginia Loza et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Biological soil crust development affects physicochemical characteristics of soil surface in semiarid ecosystems

(2012) Sonia Chamizo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Response of Biological Soil Crust Diazotrophs to Season, Altered Summer Precipitation, and Year-Round Increased Temperature in an Arid Grassland of the Colorado Plateau, USA

(2012) Chris M. Yeager et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Crust Composition and Disturbance Drive Infiltration Through Biological Soil Crusts in Semiarid Ecosystems

(2011) Sonia Chamizo et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Life cycle as a stable trait in the evaluation of diversity of Nostoc from biofilms in rivers

(2011) Pilar Mateo et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

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

CARBON FIXATION OF CYANOBACTERIAL-ALGAL CRUSTS AFTER DESERT FIXATION AND ITS IMPLICATION TO SOIL ORGANIC CARBON ACCUMULATION IN DESERT

(2011) S. Yan-Gui et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Effect of biological soil crusts on soil elemental concentrations: implications for biogeochemistry and as traceable biosignatures of ancient life on land

(2009) H. BERALDI-CAMPESI et al.   Geobiology

The Evolution of a Capacity to Build Supra-Cellular Ropes Enabled Filamentous Cyanobacteria to Colonize Highly Erodible Substrates

(2009) Ferran Garcia-Pichel et al.   PLoS One

The Biological Soil Crusts of the San Nicolas Island: Enigmatic Algae from a Geographically Isolated Ecosystem

(2009) Valerie R. Flechtner et al.   WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST

MEGA: A biologist-centric software for evolutionary analysis of DNA and protein sequences

(2008) S. Kumar et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

DEWFALL AS A WATER SOURCE FREQUENTLY ACTIVATES THE ENDOLITHIC CYANOBACTERIAL COMMUNITIES IN THE GRANITES OF TAYLOR VALLEY, ANTARCTICA1

(2008) Burkhard Büdel et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

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

(2008) Burkhard Büdel et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The effect of restored microbiotic crusts on erosion of soil from a desert area in China

(2007) Z. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS