Biocrust morphology is linked to marked differences in microbial community composition

The seasonal and successional variations of carbon release from biological soil crust-covered soil

(2016) Yang Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

Disrupted progression of the intestinal microbiota with age in children with cystic fibrosis

(2016) Shaun Nielsen et al.   Scientific Reports

Microsite Differentiation Drives the Abundance of Soil Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria along Aridity Gradients

(2016) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Assessment of carbon gains from biocrusts inhabiting a dunefield in the Negev Desert

(2015) Giora J. Kidron et al.   GEODERMA

Soil-foraging animals alter the composition and co-occurrence of microbial communities in a desert shrubland

(2015) David J Eldridge et al.   ISME Journal

Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria

(2015) Richard Baran et al.   Nature Communications

Isolation of a significant fraction of non-phototroph diversity from a desert Biological Soil Crust

(2015) Ulisses Nunes da Rocha et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Relative Abundance of and Composition within Fungal Orders Differ between Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)-Associated Soils

(2015) Carolyn F. Weber et al.   PLoS One

Niche partitioning of bacterial communities in biological crusts and soils under grasses, shrubs and trees in the Kalahari

(2014) David R. Elliott 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

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

Dynamics of bacterial community succession in a salt marsh chronosequence: evidences for temporal niche partitioning

(2014) Francisco Dini-Andreote et al.   ISME Journal

Biocrust morphogroups provide an effective and rapid assessment tool for drylands

(2014) Cassia F. Read et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Martin Hagemann et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial community responses to anthropogenically induced environmental change: towards a systems approach

(2013) Andrew Bissett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Spatial heterogeneity of cyanobacteria-inoculated sand dunes significantly influences artificial biological soil crusts in the Hopq Desert (China)

(2013) Hua Li et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

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

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

Microbial diversity of eolian dust sources from saline lake sediments and biological soil crusts in arid Southern Australia

(2012) Raeid M.M. Abed et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Inferring Correlation Networks from Genomic Survey Data

(2012) Jonathan Friedman et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Fundamentals of Microbial Community Resistance and Resilience

(2012) Ashley Shade et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Deposition of sand over a cyanobacterial soil crust increases nitrogen bioavailability in a semi-arid woodland

(2011) Wendy J. Williams et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Response and resilience of soil biocrust bacterial communities to chronic physical disturbance in arid shrublands

(2011) Cheryl R Kuske et al.   ISME Journal

Genome of the Cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatusFGP-2, a Photosynthetic Ecosystem Engineer of Arid Land Soil Biocrusts Worldwide

(2011) S. R. Starkenburg et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Relationships between biological soil crusts, bacterial diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning: Insights from a semi-arid Mediterranean environment

(2011) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Effects of plant species richness and evenness on soil microbial community diversity and function

(2010) Eric G. Lamb et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Inferring biological soil crust successional stage using combined PLFA, DGGE, physical and biophysiological analyses

(2010) Eli Zaady et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

(2009) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant species and soil type cooperatively shape the structure and function of microbial communities in the rhizosphere

(2009) Gabriele Berg et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Microarthropod communities associated with biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau and Chihuahuan deserts

(2009) D.A. Neher et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Microbial community structure and its functional implications

(2009) Jed A. Fuhrman   NATURE

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

Community structure of marine bacterioplankton: patterns, networks, and relationships to function

(2008) JA Fuhrman et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Visually assessing the level of development and soil surface stability of cyanobacterially dominated biological soil crusts

(2008) J. Belnap et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

(2008) Burkhard Büdel et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

(2008) S. D. Allison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA