Hydrological response of biological soil crusts to global warming: A ten-year simulative study

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

Biocrusts positively affect the soil water balance in semiarid ecosystems

(2016) Sonia Chamizo et al.   Ecohydrology

Diversity and distribution of soil fungal communities associated with biological soil crusts in the southeastern Tengger Desert (China) as revealed by 454 pyrosequencing

(2016) Tao Zhang et al.   Fungal Ecology

Effects of biological soil crust and water availability on seedlings of three perennial Patagonian species

(2016) Guadalupe Peter et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts

(2015) Scott Ferrenberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water Repellency of Biological Soil Crusts and Influencing Factors on the Southeast Fringe of the Tengger Desert, North-Central China

(2015) Haotian Yang et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology

(2014) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The role of crust thickness in runoff generation from microbiotic crusts

(2014) Giora J. Kidron   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Climate warming affects biological invasions by shifting interactions of plants and herbivores

(2013) Xinmin Lu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Will climate change promote future invasions?

(2013) Celine Bellard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biocrusts serve as biomarkers for the upper 30cm soil water content

(2013) Giora J. Kidron et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Photosynthesis of two moss crusts from the Tengger Desert with contrasting sensitivity to supplementary UV-B radiation

(2013) R. Hui et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Biocrusts control the nitrogen dynamics and microbial functional diversity of semi-arid soils in response to nutrient additions

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Some Like It Hot, Some Not

(2013) J. Belnap   SCIENCE

Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities

(2013) F. Garcia-Pichel et al.   SCIENCE

Global warming and changes in drought

(2013) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   Nature Climate Change

Carbon fixation by biological soil crusts following revegetation of sand dunes in arid desert regions of China: A four-year field study

(2012) X.R. Li et al.   CATENA

The effect of biocrusts on evaporation from sand dunes in the Negev Desert

(2012) Giora J. Kidron et al.   GEODERMA

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

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Warming reduces the growth and diversity of biological soil crusts in a semi-arid environment: implications for ecosystem structure and functioning

(2012) C. Escolar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models

(2012) Aiguo Dai   Nature Climate Change

Nitrogen fixation in biological soil crusts from the Tengger desert, northern China

(2011) Yan-gui Su et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern

(2011) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate Change, Keystone Predation, and Biodiversity Loss

(2011) C. D. G. Harley   SCIENCE

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

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

Dew formation characteristics in a revegetation-stabilized desert ecosystem in Shapotou area, Northern China

(2010) Yan-xia Pan et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils

(2009) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Global change and biological soil crusts: effects of ultraviolet augmentation under altered precipitation regimes and nitrogen additions

(2008) JAYNE BELNAP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY