Filling the interspace—restoring arid land mosses: source populations, organic matter, and overwintering govern success
Abstract Biological soil crusts contribute to ecosystem functions and occupy space that could be available to invasive annual grasses. Given disturbances in the semiarid shrub steppe communities, we embarked on a set of studies to investigate restoration potential of mosses in sagebrush steppe ecosy...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2016-11-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2448 |