Rapidly restoring biological soil crusts and ecosystem functions in a severely disturbed desert ecosystem

Restoring a desert ecosystem using soil salvage, revegetation, and irrigation

(2015) Scott R. Abella et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Natural recovery of moss-dominated biological soil crusts after surface soil removal and their long-term effects on soil water conditions in a semi-arid environment

(2014) Bo Xiao et al.   CATENA

Biological soil crusts across disturbance–recovery scenarios: effect of grazing regime on community dynamics

(2014) L. Concostrina-Zubiri et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Dynamics of organic carbon losses by water erosion after biocrust removal

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

Physiological history may mask the inherent inducible desiccation tolerance strategy of the desert mossCrossidium crassinerve

(2014) L. R. Stark et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Carbon sequestration capacity of shifting sand dune after establishing new vegetation in the Tengger Desert, northern China

(2014) Haotian Yang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The Study of Biological Soil Crusts: Hotspots and Prospects

(2013) Chongfeng Bu et al.   CLEAN-Soil Air Water

Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands

(2013) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biocrusts control the nitrogen dynamics and microbial functional diversity of semi-arid soils in response to nutrient additions

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

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

Carbon fixation by biological soil crusts following revegetation of sand dunes in arid desert regions of China: A four-year field study

(2012) X.R. Li et al.   CATENA

Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Erratum: Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Cyanotoxins in desert environments may present a risk to human health

(2012) J.S. Metcalf et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Biological Soil Crusts in the Mojave Desert, USA: Micromorphology and Pedogenesis

(2012) Amanda J. Williams et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Artificial culture of biological soil crusts and its effects on overland flow and infiltration under simulated rainfall

(2011) Bo Xiao et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

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

Surprisingly fast recovery of biological soil crusts following livestock removal in southern Australia

(2011) Cassia F. Read et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Short-term soil inorganic N pulse after experimental fire alters invasive and native annual plant production in a Mojave Desert shrubland

(2010) Todd C. Esque et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

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

Untangling the biological contributions to soil stability in semiarid shrublands

(2009) V. Bala Chaudhary et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A Technology for Rapid Reconstruction of Moss-Dominated Soil Crusts

(2009) Shujun Xu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

The ecology of dust

(2009) Jason P Field et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Soil aggregation and organic carbon in short-term stockpiles

(2009) A. F. Wick et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Feasibility of cyanobacterial inoculation for biological soil crusts formation in desert area

(2008) Weibo Wang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY