Broader Impacts for Ecologists: Biological Soil Crust as a Model System for Education

Broader Impacts for Ecologists: Biological Soil Crust as a Model System for Education

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are a complex community of algae, cyanobacteria, lichens, bryophytes, and assorted bacteria, fungi, archaea, and bacteriophages that colonize the soil surface. Biocrusts are particularly common in drylands and are found in arid and semiarid ecosystems worldwide. Wh...

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Main Authors: Akasha M. Faist, Anita J. Antoninka, Nichole N. Barger, Matthew A. Bowker, V. Bala Chaudhary, Caroline A. Havrilla, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Sasha C. Reed, Bettina Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
biocrust
ecology
evolution
scale
patterns and processes
succession
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.577922/full

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