Biocrust cyanobacterial composition, diversity, and environmental drivers in two contrasting climatic regions in Brazil

Biodiversity of Algae and Cyanobacteria in Biological Soil Crusts Collected Along a Climatic Gradient in Chile Using an Integrative Approach

(2020) Elena Samolov et al.   Microorganisms

Assessing the viability of cyanobacteria pellets for application in arid land restoration

(2020) J.R. Román et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Assessment of Caatinga response to drought using Meteosat-SEVIRI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (2008–2016)

(2019) Humberto Alves Barbosa et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Composition of biological soil crusts from sand dunes of the Baltic Sea coast in the context of an integrative approach to the taxonomy of microalgae and cyanobacteria

(2019) Tatiana Mikhailyuk et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Differences in the Cyanobacterial Community Composition of Biocrusts From the Drylands of Central Mexico. Are There Endemic Species?

(2019) Itzel Becerra-Absalón et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Optimizing the Production of Nursery-Based Biological Soil Crusts for Restoration of Arid Land Soils

(2019) Julie Bethany et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biocrust science and global change

(2019) Sasha C. Reed et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Comparative metagenomics of two distinct biological soil crusts in the Tengger Desert, China

(2019) Jing-Yu Li et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The Compositionally Distinct Cyanobacterial Biocrusts From Brazilian Savanna and Their Environmental Drivers of Community Diversity

(2019) Náthali Maria Machado-de-Lima et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Neglected but Potent Dry Forest Players: Ecological Role and Ecosystem Service Provision of Biological Soil Crusts in the Human-Modified Caatinga

(2019) Michelle Szyja et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Adaptation of the century model to simulate C and N dynamics of Caatinga dry forest before and after deforestation

(2018) Tiago Diniz Althoff et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Dryland photoautotrophic soil surface communities endangered by global change

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

Cyanobacteria inoculation enhances carbon sequestration in soil substrates used in dryland restoration

(2018) M. Muñoz-Rojas et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Plant species richness record in Brazilian Pampa grasslands and implications

(2018) Luciana da Silva Menezes et al.   Brazilian Journal of Botany

Nursing biocrusts: isolation, cultivation and fitness test of indigenous cyanobacteria

(2018) Ana Giraldo-Silva et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

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

Exposure to predicted precipitation patterns decreases population size and alters community structure of cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts from the Chihuahuan Desert

(2017) Vanessa M.C. Fernandes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Albedo feedbacks to future climate via climate change impacts on dryland biocrusts

(2017) William A. Rutherford et al.   Scientific Reports

Bacterial diversity and community along the succession of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Northern China

(2016) Bingchang Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGY

Bacteria increase arid-land soil surface temperature through the production of sunscreens

(2016) Estelle Couradeau et al.   Nature Communications

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Caatinga: The Scientific Negligence Experienced by a Dry Tropical Forest

(2016) Jean Carlos Santos et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Improved appreciation of the functioning and importance of biological soil crusts in Europe: the Soil Crust International Project (SCIN)

(2014) Burkhard Büdel et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Pedological and geological relationships with soil lichen and moss distribution in the eastern Mojave Desert, CA, USA

(2014) Jayne Belnap et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

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

The effect of sand grain size on the development of cyanobacterial biocrusts

(2014) Offer Rozenstein et al.   Aeolian Research

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

High Bacterial Diversity of Biological Soil Crusts in Water Tracks over Permafrost in the High Arctic Polar Desert

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   PLoS One

A simple method for determining limiting nutrients for photosynthetic crusts

(2012) Steve K. Schmidt et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

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

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

Functional profiles reveal unique ecological roles of various biological soil crust organisms

(2011) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Woody Plant Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology in the Tropics: Perspectives from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

(2009) R. Toby Pennington et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

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

(2008) Burkhard Büdel et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY