A research agenda for nonvascular photoautotrophs under climate change

Biocrusts mediate a new mechanism for land degradation under a changing climate

(2022) M. L. Phillips et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools

(2022) Laura García‐Velázquez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Decline in biological soil crust N-fixing lichens linked to increasing summertime temperatures

(2022) Rebecca Finger-Higgens et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contrasting Patterns of Climatic Niche Divergence in Trebouxia—A Clade of Lichen-Forming Algae

(2022) Matthew P. Nelsen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biocrust‐forming lichens increase soil available phosphorus under simulated climate change

(2022) Laura Concostrina‐Zubiri et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

An artificial intelligence approach to remotely assess pale lichen biomass

(2022) Rasmus Erlandsson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Contrasting multitaxon responses to climate change in Mediterranean mountains

(2021) Luca Di Nuzzo et al.   Scientific Reports

The Lichens’ Microbiota, Still a Mystery?

(2021) Maria Grimm et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Functional Traits in Lichen Ecology: A Review of Challenge and Opportunity

(2021) Christopher J. Ellis et al.   Microorganisms

Divergent responses of moss- and lichen-dominated biocrusts to warming and increased drought in arid desert regions

(2021) Xinrong Li et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Coverage and Rainfall Response of Biological Soil Crusts Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 Data in a Central European Temperate Dry Acid Grassland

(2021) Jakob Rieser et al.   Remote Sensing

Biocrust and the soil surface: Influence of climate, disturbance, and biocrust recovery on soil surface roughness

(2021) Joshua Caster et al.   GEODERMA

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

(2020) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Functional trade-off of hydration strategies in old forest epiphytic cephalolichens

(2020) Annie B. Ås Hovind et al.   Fungal Biology

The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands

(2020) David J. Eldridge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw

(2020) Gustaf Hugelius et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Range shifts of native and invasive trees exacerbate the impact of climate change on epiphyte distribution: The case of lung lichen and black locust in Italy

(2020) Juri Nascimbene et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Himantormia lugubris, an Antarctic endemic on the edge of the lichen symbiosis

(2020) Leo Sancho et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Relative humidity predominantly determines long‐term biocrust‐forming lichen cover in drylands under climate change

(2020) Selina Baldauf et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species‐specific effects of biocrust‐forming lichens on soil properties under simulated climate change are driven by functional traits

(2020) Laura Concostrina‐Zubiri et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

(2020) J. Loisel et al.   Nature Climate Change

Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world

(2019) Michael C. Duniway et al.   Ecosphere

Effects of moisture dynamics on bryophyte carbon fluxes in a tropical cloud forest

(2019) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interactions of climate and solar irradiance can reverse the bioclimatic response of poikilohydric species: An experimental test for Flavoparmelia caperata

(2019) Christopher J. Ellis   BRYOLOGIST

Elevational patterns of bryophyte and lichen biomass differ among substrates in the tropical montane forest of Baru Volcano, Panama

(2019) Eyvar E. Rodríguez-Quiel et al.   JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY

A practical guide to measuring functional indicators and traits in biocrusts

(2019) Max Mallen‐Cooper et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Modeling the vegetation dynamics of northern shrubs and mosses in the ORCHIDEE land surface model

(2019) Arsène Druel et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Experimental warming alters the community composition, diversity, and N 2 fixation activity of peat moss ( Sphagnum fallax ) microbiomes

(2019) Alyssa A. Carrell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Faster nitrogen cycling and more fungal and root biomass in cold ecosystems under experimental warming: a meta‐analysis

(2019) Alejandro Salazar et al.   ECOLOGY

Rapid loss of an ecosystem engineer: Sphagnum decline in an experimentally warmed bog

(2019) Richard J. Norby et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Novel climates reverse carbon uptake of atmospherically dependent epiphytes: Climatic constraints on the iconic boreal forest lichen Evernia mesomorpha

(2018) Robert J. Smith et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Climatic Sensitivity of Dryland Soil CO2 Fluxes Differs Dramatically with Biological Soil Crust Successional State

(2018) Colin L. Tucker et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Photoautotrophic organisms control microbial abundance, diversity, and physiology in different types of biological soil crusts

(2018) Stefanie Maier et al.   ISME Journal

Dryland photoautotrophic soil surface communities endangered by global change

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

Significant contribution of non-vascular vegetation to global rainfall interception

(2018) Philipp Porada et al.   Nature Geoscience

Warming reduces the cover, richness and evenness of lichen-dominated biocrusts but promotes moss growth: insights from an 8 yr experiment

(2018) Mónica Ladrón de Guevara et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

What drives biological nitrogen fixation in high arctic tundra: Moisture or temperature?

(2018) Kathrin Rousk et al.   Ecosphere

Modeling the Effect of Moss Cover on Soil Temperature and Carbon Fluxes at a Tundra Site in Northeastern Siberia

(2018) Hotaek Park et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Latitudinal patterns and environmental drivers of moss layer cover in extratropical forests

(2018) Monica B. Berdugo et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Metabolic activity duration can be effectively predicted from macroclimatic data for biological soil crust habitats across Europe

(2017) Jose Raggio et al.   GEODERMA

Can Antarctic lichens acclimatize to changes in temperature?

(2017) Claudia Colesie et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecosystem services provided by biocrusts: From ecosystem functions to social values

(2017) Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Metabolomic Analysis of Two Parmotrema Lichens: P. robustum (Degel.) Hale and P. andinum (Mull. Arg.) Hale Using UHPLC-ESI-OT-MS-MS

(2017) Alfredo Torres-Benítez et al.   MOLECULES

Functional ecology of cryptogams: scaling from bryophyte, lichen, and soil crust traits to ecosystem processes

(2017) Kirsten K. Deane-Coe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biomass assessment of microbial surface communities by means of hyperspectral remote sensing data

(2017) Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Recent Warming and Cooling in the Antarctic Peninsula Region has Rapid and Large Effects on Lichen Vegetation

(2017) Leopoldo G. Sancho et al.   Scientific Reports

Comparisons of photosynthesis-related traits of 27 abundant or subordinate bryophyte species in a subalpine old-growth fir forest

(2017) Zhe Wang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

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

Case study of the implications of climate change for lichen diversity and distributions

(2016) Marta Rubio-Salcedo et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Climate change fosters the decline of epiphytic Lobaria species in Italy

(2016) Juri Nascimbene et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

How lichens impact on terrestrial community and ecosystem properties

(2016) Johan Asplund et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Ecosystem nitrogen fixation throughout the snow-free period in subarctic tundra: effects of willow and birch litter addition and warming

(2016) Kathrin Rousk et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Bryophyte traits explain climate-warming effects on tree seedling establishment

(2016) Signe Lett et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The functional roles of epiphytes and arboreal soils in tropical montane cloud forests

(2016) Sybil G. Gotsch et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Northern peatland carbon dynamics driven by plant growth form — the role of graminoids

(2016) Catherine M. Dieleman et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Laboratory-based techniques for assessing the functional traits of biocrusts

(2016) Max Mallen-Cooper et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

(2016) Estelle Couradeau et al.   Nature Communications

Photosynthesis, growth, and decay traits inSphagnum- a multispecies comparison

(2016) Fia Bengtsson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A rapid method for landscape assessment of carbon storage and ecosystem function in moss and lichen ground layers

(2015) Robert J. Smith et al.   BRYOLOGIST

Coupling boreal forest CO2, H2O and energy flows by a vertically structured forest canopy – Soil model with separate bryophyte layer

(2015) Samuli Launiainen et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Experimental Warming Alters Productivity and Isotopic Signatures of Tundra Mosses

(2015) Kirsten K. Deane-Coe et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A review and evaluation of forest canopy epiphyte roles in the partitioning and chemical alteration of precipitation

(2015) John T. Van Stan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Development and calibration of a novel sensor to quantify the water content of surface soils and biological soil crusts

(2015) Bettina Weber et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Sensitivity of a coupled climate model to canopy interception capacity

(2014) T. Davies-Barnard et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Species distribution models backing taxa delimitation: the case of the lichen Squamarina cartilaginea in Italy

(2014) Stefano Martellos et al.   FLORA

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

Rain, dew, and humid air as drivers of morphology, function and spatial distribution in epiphytic lichens

(2014) Yngvar GAUSLAA   LICHENOLOGIST

S phagnum physiology in the context of changing climate: emergent influences of genomics, modelling and host-microbiome interactions on understanding ecosystem function

(2014) DAVID J. WESTON et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

Functional traits of cryptogams in Mediterranean ecosystems are driven by water, light and substrate interactions

(2013) Paolo Giordani et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The role of mosses in carbon uptake and partitioning in arctic vegetation

(2013) Lorna E. Street et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The temperature acclimation potential of tropical bryophytes

(2013) S. Wagner et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Moss-cyanobacteria associations as biogenic sources of nitrogen in boreal forest ecosystems

(2013) Kathrin Rousk et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A risk-based model of climate change threat: hazard, exposure, and vulnerability in the ecology of lichen epiphytes

(2012) Christopher J. Ellis   Botany

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

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems

(2012) M. R. Turetsky et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Physiological ecology of desert biocrust moss following 10 years exposure to elevated CO2: evidence for enhanced photosynthetic thermotolerance

(2012) Kirsten K. Coe et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Changes to dryland rainfall result in rapid moss mortality and altered soil fertility

(2012) Sasha C. Reed et al.   Nature Climate Change

Boreal lichen woodlands: A possible negative feedback to climate change in eastern North America

(2011) P.Y. Bernier et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Respiration-induced weathering patterns of two endolithically growing lichens

(2010) BETTINA WEBER et al.   Geobiology

Global peatland dynamics since the Last Glacial Maximum

(2010) Zicheng Yu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS