Ausgabe 7/2014
Special Issue: Biological soil crusts in a changing world
Inhalt (14 Artikel)
Biological soil crusts in a changing world: introduction to the special issue
Leopoldo G. Sancho, Fernando T. Maestre, Burkhard Büdel
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology
Matthew A. Bowker, Fernando T. Maestre, David Eldridge, Jayne Belnap, Andrea Castillo-Monroy, Cristina Escolar, Santiago Soliveres
Improved appreciation of the functioning and importance of biological soil crusts in Europe: the Soil Crust International Project (SCIN)
Burkhard Büdel, Claudia Colesie, T. G. Allan Green, Martin Grube, Roberto Lázaro Suau, Katharina Loewen-Schneider, Stefanie Maier, Thomas Peer, Ana Pintado, José Raggio, Ulrike Ruprecht, Leopoldo G. Sancho, Burkhard Schroeter, Roman Türk, Bettina Weber, Mats Wedin, Martin Westberg, Laura Williams, Lingjuan Zheng
Disturbance to desert soil ecosystems contributes to dust-mediated impacts at regional scales
Stephen B. Pointing, Jayne Belnap
Response of biological soil crusts to raindrop erosivity and underlying influences in the hilly Loess Plateau region, China
Yunge Zhao, Ningqiang Qin, Bettina Weber, Mingxiang Xu
Soil microstructure as an under-explored feature of biological soil crust hydrological properties: case study from the NW Negev Desert
Vincent John Martin Noah Linus Felde, Stephan Peth, Daniel Uteau-Puschmann, Sylvie Drahorad, Peter Felix-Henningsen
Niche partitioning of bacterial communities in biological crusts and soils under grasses, shrubs and trees in the Kalahari
David R. Elliott, Andrew D. Thomas, Stephen R. Hoon, Robin Sen
Analyses of dryland biological soil crusts highlight lichens as an important regulator of microbial communities
Stefanie Maier, Thomas S. B. Schmidt, Lingjuan Zheng, Thomas Peer, Viktoria Wagner, Martin Grube
Climate and small scale factors determine functional diversity shifts of biological soil crusts in Iberian drylands
Laura Concostrina-Zubiri, David S. Pescador, Isabel Martínez, Adrián Escudero
High photobiont diversity in the common European soil crust lichen Psora decipiens
Ulrike Ruprecht, Georg Brunauer, Roman Türk
Simulated climate change reduced the capacity of lichen-dominated biocrusts to act as carbon sinks in two semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems
Mónica Ladrón de Guevara, Roberto Lázaro, José L. Quero, Victoria Ochoa, Beatriz Gozalo, Miguel Berdugo, Olga Uclés, Cristina Escolar, Fernando T. Maestre
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
J. Raggio, A. Pintado, M. Vivas, L. G. Sancho, B. Büdel, C. Colesie, B. Weber, B. Schroeter, R. Lázaro, T. G. A. Green
Cyanobacteria in the Australian northern savannah detect the difference between intermittent dry season and wet season rain
Wendy J. Williams, B. Büdel, H. Reichenberger, N. Rose
Green algae in alpine biological soil crust communities: acclimation strategies against ultraviolet radiation and dehydration
Ulf Karsten, Andreas Holzinger