Titlebook: Biological Soil Crusts: An Organizing Principle in Drylands; Bettina Weber,Burkhard Büdel,Jayne Belnap Book 2016 Springer International Pu

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978-3-319-80752-2Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2016

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How Biological Soil Crusts Became Recognized as a Functional Unit: A Selective Historyific recognition and functional analysis of these communities are a relatively young field of science. In this chapter, we sketch the historical lines that led to the recognition of biocrusts as a community with important ecosystem functions. The idea of biocrusts as a functional ecological communit

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Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Precambrianssils (e.g., plant roots), there is now ample evidence for pervasive and diverse microbial communities on land billions of years before the Phanerozoic. Modern “biological soil crusts” or “biocrusts” are excellent analogs for terrestrial Precambrian ecosystems, especially because they develop in pla

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Cyanobacteria and Algae of Biological Soil Crustsc, and high alpine regions, as well as in few dry Savannah ecosystems, filamentous green algae may act in a similar role. Here, we give an overview on the role, diversity, and biogeography of cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae in biocrusts from all climatic regions and continents of the Earth. We re

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Bryophytes Within Biological Soil Crustss of biocrust bryophytes have been described, many of which belong to the families Pottiaceae and Bryaceae. Bryophytes possess a suite of physiological and morphological traits that enable them to colonize and live in extreme environments. For this reason, bryophytes can be a conspicuous component o