ArticleSoil biology & biochemistry2015
Biocrusts modulate warming and rainfall exclusion effects on soil respiration in a semi-arid grassland.
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- Optimizing planting density and nitrogen application to enhance maize yield while mitigating carbon emission in southern Xinjiang.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Biocrusts alter the effects of long-term warming on soil respiration in a dryland ecosystem.Geoderma · 2025Article
- Climate dictates microbial community composition and diversity in Australian biological soil crusts (biocrusts).Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming-induced increases in topsoil P pools.The Journal of ecology · 2022Article
- Non-Toxic Increases in Nitrogen Availability Can Improve the Ability of the Soil LichenJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- High differentiation in functional traits but similar phenotypic plasticity in populations of a soil specialist along a climatic gradient.Annals of botany · 2020Article
- Soil microbial respiration adapts to ambient temperature in global drylands.Nature ecology & evolution · 2019Article
- Simulated climate change affects how biocrusts modulate water gains and desiccation dynamics after rainfall events.Ecohydrology : ecosystems, land and water process interactions, ecohydrogeomorphology · 2018Article
- Photoautotrophic organisms control microbial abundance, diversity, and physiology in different types of biological soil crusts.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- Insight into climate change from the carbon exchange of biocrusts utilizing non-rainfall water.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2016Article
- Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Seasonal Patterns of Soil Respiration and Related Soil Biochemical Properties under Nitrogen Addition in Winter Wheat Field.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
Soil surface communities composed of cyanobacteria, algae, mosses, liverworts, fungi, bacteria and lichens (biocrusts) largely affect soil respiration in dryland ecosystems. Climate change is expected to have large effects on biocrusts and associated ecosystem processes. However, few studies so far have experimentally assessed how expected changes in temperature and rainfall will affect soil respiration in biocrust-dominated ecosystems. We evaluated the impacts of biocrust development, increased air temperature and decreased precipitation on soil respiration dynamics during dry (2009) and wet (2010) years, and investigated the relative importance of soil temperature and moisture as environmental drivers of soil respiration, in a semiarid grassland from central Spain. Soil respiration rates were significantly lower in the dry than during the wet year, regardless of biocrust cover. Warming increased soil respiration rates, but this response was only significant in biocrust-dominated areas (> 50% biocrust cover). Warming also increased the temperature sensitivity (Q
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