Volume 23, Issue 7 | Biodiversity and Conservation

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Volume 23, Issue 7

June 2014

Special Issue: Biological soil crusts in a changing world

Issue Editors:

Leopoldo G. Sancho,
Fernando T. Maestre,
Burkhard Büdel

14 articles in this issue

Biological soil crusts in a changing world: introduction to the special issue
Leopoldo G. Sancho
Fernando T. Maestre
Burkhard Büdel
Editorial 31 May 2014 Pages: 1611 - 1617
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology
Matthew A. Bowker
Fernando T. Maestre
Santiago Soliveres
Original Paper 09 March 2014 Pages: 1619 - 1637
Improved appreciation of the functioning and importance of biological soil crusts in Europe: the Soil Crust International Project (SCIN)
Burkhard Büdel
Claudia Colesie
Lingjuan Zheng
Original Paper Open access 02 March 2014 Pages: 1639 - 1658
Disturbance to desert soil ecosystems contributes to dust-mediated impacts at regional scales
Stephen B. Pointing
Jayne Belnap
Original Paper 17 April 2014 Pages: 1659 - 1667
Response of biological soil crusts to raindrop erosivity and underlying influences in the hilly Loess Plateau region, China
Yunge Zhao
Ningqiang Qin
Mingxiang Xu
Original Paper 05 April 2014 Pages: 1669 - 1686
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
Peter Felix-Henningsen
Original Paper 13 April 2014 Pages: 1687 - 1708
Niche partitioning of bacterial communities in biological crusts and soils under grasses, shrubs and trees in the Kalahari
David R. Elliott
Andrew D. Thomas
Robin Sen
Original Paper 06 April 2014 Pages: 1709 - 1733
Analyses of dryland biological soil crusts highlight lichens as an important regulator of microbial communities
Stefanie Maier
Thomas S. B. Schmidt
Martin Grube
Original Paper 15 May 2014 Pages: 1735 - 1755
Climate and small scale factors determine functional diversity shifts of biological soil crusts in Iberian drylands
Laura Concostrina-Zubiri
David S. Pescador
Adrián Escudero
Original Paper 03 April 2014 Pages: 1757 - 1770
High photobiont diversity in the common European soil crust lichen Psora decipiens
Ulrike Ruprecht
Georg Brunauer
Roman Türk
Original Paper Open access 08 March 2014 Pages: 1771 - 1785
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
Fernando T. Maestre
Original Paper 29 March 2014 Pages: 1787 - 1807
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
T. G. A. Green
Original Paper 13 April 2014 Pages: 1809 - 1826
Cyanobacteria in the Australian northern savannah detect the difference between intermittent dry season and wet season rain
Wendy J. Williams
B. Büdel
N. Rose
Original Paper 13 May 2014 Pages: 1827 - 1844
Green algae in alpine biological soil crust communities: acclimation strategies against ultraviolet radiation and dehydration
Ulf Karsten
Andreas Holzinger
Original Paper Open access 02 March 2014 Pages: 1845 - 1858