Effect of snow cover on water content, carbon and nutrient availability, and microbial biomass in complexes of biological soil crusts and subcrust soil in the desert

Rainfall characteristics determine respiration rate of biological soil crusts in drylands

(2021) Yang Zhao et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Snowpack shifts cyanobacterial community in biological soil crusts

(2021) Bingchang Zhang et al.   Journal of Arid Land

Growth of cyanobacterial soil crusts during diurnal freeze-thaw cycles

(2019) Steven K. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Variation in snow cover drives differences in soil properties and microbial biomass of BSCs in the Gurbantunggut Desert—3 years of snow manipulations

(2019) Rong Hui et al.   Ecohydrology

Effects of snowfall depth on soil physical–chemical properties and soil microbial biomass in moss–dominated crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Northern China

(2018) Ruiming Zhao et al.   CATENA

Winter soil freeze-thaw cycles lead to reductions in soil microbial biomass and activity not compensated for by soil warming

(2018) Patrick O. Sorensen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of plant restoration on soil microbial biomass in an arid desert in northern China

(2017) Xiao-hong Jia et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Effect of biological soil crusts on microbial activity in soils of the Tengger Desert (China)

(2017) Yanmei Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Precipitation and topsoil attributes determine the species diversity and distribution patterns of crustal communities in desert ecosystems

(2017) X. R. Li et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Winter snowfall can have a positive effect on photosynthetic carbon fixation and biomass accumulation of biological soil crusts from the Gurbantunggut Desert, China

(2016) Ruiming Zhao et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Microbial biomass, fungal and bacterial residues, and their relationships to the soil organic matter C/N/P/S ratios

(2016) Khalid Saifullah Khan et al.   GEODERMA

Physiological regulation of Syntrichia caninervis Mitt. in different microhabitats during periods of snow in the Gurbantünggüt Desert, northwestern China

(2016) Ben-feng Yin et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Effect of early dry season induced by the Three Gorges Dam on the soil microbial biomass and bacterial community structure in the Dongting Lake wetland

(2015) Haipeng Wu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Divergence in physiological responses between cyanobacterial and lichen crusts to a gradient of simulated nitrogen deposition

(2015) Xiaobing B. Zhou et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Analysis of environmental factors determining development and succession in biological soil crusts

(2015) Shubin Lan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Spatial abundance of microbial nitrogen-transforming genes and inorganic nitrogen in biocrusts along a transect of an arid sand dune in the Negev Desert

(2015) Giora J. Kidron et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on soil microbial biomass and community structure in two reforested tropical forests

(2015) Lei Liu et al.   Scientific Reports

Snow removal alters soil microbial biomass and enzyme activity in a Tibetan alpine forest

(2014) Bo Tan et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Impacts of soil crusts on soil physicochemical characteristics in different rainfall zones of the arid and semi-arid desert regions of northern China

(2014) Xiaohong Chen et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Habitat stress initiates changes in composition, CO2 gas exchange and C-allocation as life traits in biological soil crusts

(2014) Claudia Colesie et al.   ISME Journal

Plant functional traits and soil microbial biomass in different vegetation zones on the Loess Plateau

(2014) Zhijing Xue et al.   Journal of Plant Interactions

Responses of Microalgal-Microbial Biomass and Enzyme Activities of Biological Soil Crusts to Moisture and InoculatedMicrocoleus vaginatusGradients

(2013) Bingchang Zhang et al.   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

Changes of soil microbial biomass and bacterial community structure in Dongting Lake: Impacts of 50,000 dams of Yangtze River

(2013) Haipeng Wu et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Soil extractable carbon and nitrogen, microbial biomass and microbial metabolic activity in response to warming and increased precipitation in a semiarid Inner Mongolian grassland

(2013) Xiaoqi Zhou et al.   GEODERMA

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

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

Bryophyte-cyanobacteria associations as regulators of the northern latitude carbon balance in response to global change

(2013) Zoë Lindo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biological soil crust influence on germination and rooting of two key species in a Stipa tenacissima steppe

(2013) Dinorah O. Mendoza-Aguilar et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Reduction in snow depth negatively affects decomposers but impact on decomposition rates is substrate dependent

(2013) Stef Bokhorst et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

(2013) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Climate Change

Changes in soil microbial biomass and functional diversity with a nitrogen gradient in soil columns

(2012) Fangliang Li et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

The effects of heavy winter rains and rare summer rains on biological soil crusts in the Negev Desert

(2012) Giora J. Kidron et al.   CATENA

Manipulating snow cover in an alpine bog: effects on ecosystem respiration and nutrient content in soil and microbes

(2012) L. Bombonato et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Increased temperature and altered summer precipitation have differential effects on biological soil crusts in a dryland ecosystem

(2012) Shannon L. Johnson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Influence of experimental snow removal on root and canopy physiology of sugar maple trees in a northern hardwood forest

(2012) Daniel P. Comerford et al.   OECOLOGIA

Warming and increased precipitation frequency on the Colorado Plateau: implications for biological soil crusts and soil processes

(2012) Tamara J. Zelikova et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Labile carbon in biological soil crusts in the Tabernas desert, SE Spain

(2012) Isabel Miralles et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Inter-annual and seasonal dynamics of soil microbial biomass and nutrients in wet and dry low-Arctic sedge meadows

(2012) Kate A. Edwards et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Distribution and Composition of Cyanobacteria and Microalgae Associated with Biological Soil Crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, China

(2011) Bingchang Zhang et al.   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

Plant size, sex expression and sexual reproduction along an elevation gradient in a desert moss

(2011) Michael Benassi et al.   BRYOLOGIST

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

(2011) Shubin Lan et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Differential wind tolerance of soil crust mosses explains their micro-distribution in nature

(2011) Rong Liang Jia et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Representing spatial variability of snow water equivalent in hydrologic and land-surface models: A review

(2011) Martyn P. Clark et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Snow depth, soil freezing and nitrogen cycling in a northern hardwood forest landscape

(2010) Peter M. Groffman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Micro-geomorphology determines community structure of biological soil crusts at small scales

(2010) Xin-Rong Li et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

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

Soil microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen in forest ecosystems of Northeast China: a comparison between natural secondary forest and larch plantation

(2010) K. Yang et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Microbiotic crusts as biomarkers for surface stability and wetness duration in the Negev Desert

(2009) Giora J. Kidron et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Experimental snowpack reduction alters organic matter and net N mineralization potential of soil macroaggregates in a northern hardwood forest

(2008) J. Megan Steinweg et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS