Biological Soil Crust Microsites Are the Main Contributor to Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Ecosystem

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

Interactive Effects of Three Ecosystem Engineers on Infiltration in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Grassland

(2010) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Carbon exchange in biological soil crust communities under differential temperatures and soil water contents: implications for global change

(2010) EDMUND E. GROTE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Significance of temperature and soil water content on soil respiration in three desert ecosystems in Northwest China

(2010) L.H. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities

(2010) F. T. Maestre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: insights from a Mediterranean grassland

(2010) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Impact of land degradation on soil respiration in a steppe (Stipa tenacissima L.) semi-arid ecosystem in the SE of Spain

(2010) A. Rey et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Untangling the biological contributions to soil stability in semiarid shrublands

(2009) V. Bala Chaudhary et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Responses of dryland soil respiration and soil carbon pool size to abrupt vs. gradual and individual vs. combined changes in soil temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric [CO2]: a simulation analysis

(2009) WEIJUN SHEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon dioxide fluxes from biologically-crusted Kalahari Sands after simulated wetting

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

Impact of biological soil crusts and desert plants on soil microfaunal community composition

(2009) Brian J. Darby et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Temperature dependence of soil CO2 efflux is strongly modulated by seasonal patterns of moisture availability in a Mediterranean ecosystem

(2009) M. Almagro et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plants and biological soil crusts modulate the dominance of N forms in a semi-arid grassland

(2009) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Carbon dioxide fluxes from cyanobacteria crusted soils in the Kalahari

(2008) A.D. Thomas et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Soil Texture Drives Responses of Soil Respiration to Precipitation Pulses in the Sonoran Desert: Implications for Climate Change

(2008) Jessica M. Cable et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

Large annual net ecosystem CO2uptake of a Mojave Desert ecosystem

(2008) GEORG WOHLFAHRT et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

CO2 absorption by alkaline soils and its implication to the global carbon cycle

(2008) Jingxia Xie et al.   Environmental geology.