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Spatial and Temporal Variation of Archaeal, Bacterial and Fungal Communities in Agricultural Soils

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The response of carbohydrate metabolism to the fluctuation of relative humidity (RH) in the desert soil cyanobacterium Phormidium tenue

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Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients

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

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The Role of Nonphotosynthetic Microbes in the Recovery of Biological Soil Crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Northwestern China

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Assessment of physical and hydrological properties of biological soil crusts using X-ray microtomography and modeling

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Soil Microbial Diversity in the Vicinity of a Negev Desert Shrub—Reaumuria negevensis

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A new environment for aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria: biological soil crusts

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Description of Microvirga aerophila sp. nov. and Microvirga aerilata sp. nov., isolated from air, reclassification of Balneimonas flocculans Takeda et al. 2004 as Microvirga flocculans comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Microvirga

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Evaluation of the bacterial diversity in the feces of cattle using 16S rDNA bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP)

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Can the UN Convention to Combat Desertification guide sustainable use of the world's soils?

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