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

Diversity of biocrust-forming cyanobacteria in a semiarid gypsiferous site from Central Spain

(2018) Concha Cano-Díaz et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Monitoring water content dynamics of biological soil crusts

(2017) Michael H. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

(2017) Gretta T. Pecl et al.   SCIENCE

Identity of biocrust species and microbial communities drive the response of soil multifunctionality to simulated global change

(2017) Yu-Rong Liu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Insight into climate change from the carbon exchange of biocrusts utilizing non-rainfall water

(2017) Hailong Ouyang et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

Successful lichen translocation on disturbed gypsum areas: A test with adhesives to promote the recovery of biological soil crusts

(2017) M. Ballesteros et al.   Scientific Reports

Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World

(2016) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Summer Activity Patterns of Antarctic and High Alpine Lichendominated Biological Soil Crusts—Similar But Different?

(2016) Claudia Colesie et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Drylands extent and environmental issues. A global approach

(2016) Remus Prăvălie   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

(2016) Estelle Couradeau et al.   Nature Communications

Seasonal variation of net N mineralization under different biological soil crusts in Tengger Desert, North China

(2015) Rui Hu et al.   CATENA

Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the negative impacts of increasing aridity on ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands

(2015) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Usnea antarctica, an important Antarctic lichen, is vulnerable to aspects of regional environmental change

(2015) Stef Bokhorst et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

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

Importance of biocrusts in dryland monitoring using spectral indices

(2015) Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate

(2015) Xin Jing et al.   Nature Communications

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

Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change

(2015) Jianping Huang et al.   Nature Climate Change

Warming reduces the cover and diversity of biocrust-forming mosses and lichens, and increases the physiological stress of soil microbial communities in a semi-arid Pinus halepensis plantation

(2015) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Climate and small scale factors determine functional diversity shifts of biological soil crusts in Iberian drylands

(2014) Laura Concostrina-Zubiri et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Continuous chlorophyll fluorescence, gas exchange and microclimate monitoring in a natural soil crust habitat in Tabernas badlands, Almería, Spain: progressing towards a model to understand productivity

(2014) J. Raggio et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Simulated climate change reduced the capacity of lichen-dominated biocrusts to act as carbon sinks in two semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems

(2014) Mónica Ladrón de Guevara et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The response mechanisms of soil N mineralization under biological soil crusts to temperature and moisture in temperate desert regions

(2014) Rui Hu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on microbial and biocrust communities alter the resistance of the N cycle in a semiarid grassland

(2014) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Dynamics of organic carbon losses by water erosion after biocrust removal

(2014) Yolanda Cantón et al.   Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

PERMANOVA, ANOSIM, and the Mantel test in the face of heterogeneous dispersions: What null hypothesis are you testing?

(2013) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Diversity and Patch-Size Distributions of Biological Soil Crusts Regulate Dryland Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2013) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

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

UV-protectant metabolites from lichens and their symbiotic partners

(2013) Khanh-Hung Nguyen et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   NATURE

Extremotolerance and Resistance of Lichens: Comparative Studies on Five Species Used in Astrobiological Research I. Morphological and Anatomical Characteristics

(2013) J. Meeßen et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

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

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

Elevated CO2 did not mitigate the effect of a short-term drought on biological soil crusts

(2012) Timothy M. Wertin et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Variable temperature effects of Open Top Chambers at polar and alpine sites explained by irradiance and snow depth

(2012) Stef Bokhorst et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contrasting hydrological response of coastal and desert biocrusts

(2012) Giora J. Kidron et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Runoff and Soil Loss from Revegetated Grasslands in the Hilly Loess Plateau Region, China: Influence of Biocrust Patches and Plant Canopies

(2012) Yunge Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGIC ENGINEERING

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

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

Ecophysiological analysis of moss-dominated biological soil crusts and their separate components from the Succulent Karoo, South Africa

(2012) Bettina Weber et al.   PLANTA

Functional profiles reveal unique ecological roles of various biological soil crust organisms

(2011) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Surprisingly fast recovery of biological soil crusts following livestock removal in southern Australia

(2011) Cassia F. Read et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function

(2011) Nicholas J. Gotelli et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Growth of crustose lichens: a review

(2010) Richard Armstrong et al.   GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES A-PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Biological soil crusts exhibit a dynamic response to seasonal rain and release from grazing with implications for soil stability

(2009) A. Jimenez Aguilar et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

The influence of competition between lichen colonization and erosion on the evolution of soil surfaces in the Tabernas badlands (SE Spain) and its landscape effects

(2008) R. Lázaro et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Life in extreme environments: survival strategy of the endolithic desert lichen Verrucaria rubrocincta

(2008) Laurence A. J. Garvie et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Climate change projections for the Mediterranean region

(2007) Filippo Giorgi et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE