Vascular Plants and Biocrusts Modulate How Abiotic Factors Affect Wetting and Drying Events in Drylands

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

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

The role of biological soil crusts in soil moisture dynamics in two semiarid ecosystems with contrasting soil textures

(2013) Sonia Chamizo et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Effects of biological soil crusts on surface roughness and implications for runoff and erosion

(2012) Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

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

Biological soil crust development affects physicochemical characteristics of soil surface in semiarid ecosystems

(2012) Sonia Chamizo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2011) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Crust Composition and Disturbance Drive Infiltration Through Biological Soil Crusts in Semiarid Ecosystems

(2011) Sonia Chamizo et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Evaporative losses from soils covered by physical and different types of biological soil crusts

(2011) S. Chamizo et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain

(2011) F.T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

The role of hydraulic lift on seedling establishment under a nurse plant species in a semi-arid environment

(2011) Iván Prieto et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Two-Dimensional Porosity of Crusted Silty Soils: Indicators of Soil Quality in Semiarid Rangelands?

(2011) I. Miralles-Mellado et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

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

(2010) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

Water repellency and pore clogging at early successional stages of microbiotic crusts on inland dunes, Brandenburg, NE Germany

(2009) Thomas Fischer et al.   CATENA

Factors and interactions controlling infiltration, runoff, and soil loss at the microscale in a patchy Mediterranean semiarid landscape

(2009) Ángeles G. Mayor et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Hydraulic lift: soil processes and transpiration in the Mediterranean leguminous shrub Retama sphaerocarpa (L.) Boiss

(2009) Iván Prieto et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The effect of shrub canopy upon surface temperatures and evaporation in the Negev Desert

(2008) Giora J. Kidron   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Sieving crusts and macrofaunal activity control soil water repellency in semiarid environments: Evidences from SE Spain

(2008) Sergio Contreras et al.   GEODERMA

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