ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2015
Climate change and physical disturbance manipulations result in distinct biological soil crust communities.
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- Experimental evidence of a biological soil crust degradation climate warming amplification feedback.Communications earth & environment · 2026Article
- Bacterial Isolation from Natural Grassland on Nitrogen-Free Agar Yields Many Strains Without Nitrogenase.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Summer and autumn photosynthetic activity in High Arctic biological soil crusts and their winter recovery.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- eBryoSoil: a citizen science application to monitor changes in soil ecosystems.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Organizing a global list of cyanobacteria and algae from soil biocrusts evidenced great geographic and taxonomic gaps.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Review
- Revealing the Succession of Spatial Heterogeneity of the Microbial Community during Broad Bean Paste Fermentation.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Functional significance of microbial diversity in arid soils: biological soil crusts and nitrogen fixation as a model system.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- Biological soil crusts on agricultural soils of mesic regions promote microbial cross-kingdom co-occurrences and nutrient retention.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Climate dictates microbial community composition and diversity in Australian biological soil crusts (biocrusts).Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Differential Influences of Wind-Blown Sand Burial on Bacterial and Fungal Communities Inhabiting Biological Soil Crusts in a Temperate Desert, China.Microorganisms · 2022Article
- What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- Distribution of Mixotrophy and Desiccation Survival Mechanisms across Microbial Genomes in an Arid Biological Soil Crust Community.mSystems · 2021Article
- Biological Soil Crust Bacterial Communities Vary Along Climatic and Shrub Cover Gradients Within a Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Resistance, Resilience, and Recovery of Dryland Soil Bacterial Communities Across Multiple Disturbances.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Biocrusts buffer against the accumulation of soil metallic nutrients induced by warming and rainfall reduction.Communications biology · 2020Article
- Soil microbiomes and climate change.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2020Review
- Chronic Physical Disturbance Substantially Alters the Response of Biological Soil Crusts to a Wetting Pulse, as Characterized by Metatranscriptomic Sequencing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- The interaction of soil phototrophs and fungi with pH and their impact on soil COSoil biology & biochemistry · 2017Article
- Variation in Biological Soil Crust Bacterial Abundance and Diversity as a Function of Climate in Cold Steppe Ecosystems in the Intermountain West, USA.Microbial ecology · 2017Article
- Insight into climate change from the carbon exchange of biocrusts utilizing non-rainfall water.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) colonize plant interspaces in many drylands and are critical to soil nutrient cycling. Multiple climate change and land use factors have been shown to detrimentally impact biocrusts on a macroscopic (i.e., visual) scale. However, the impact of these perturbations on the bacterial components of the biocrusts remains poorly understood. We employed multiple long-term field experiments to assess the impacts of chronic physical (foot trampling) and climatic changes (2°C soil warming, altered summer precipitation [wetting], and combined warming and wetting) on biocrust bacterial biomass, composition, and metabolic profile. The biocrust bacterial communities adopted distinct states based on the mechanism of disturbance. Chronic trampling decreased biomass and caused small community compositional changes. Soil warming had little effect on biocrust biomass or composition, while wetting resulted in an increase in the cyanobacterial biomass and altered bacterial composition. Warming combined with wetting dramatically altered bacterial composition and decreased Cyanobacteria abundance. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing identified four functional gene categories that differed in relative abundance among the manipulations, suggesting that climate and land use changes affected soil bacterial functional potential. This study illustrates that different types of biocrust disturbance damage biocrusts in macroscopically similar ways, but they differentially impact the resident soil bacterial communities, and the communities' functional profiles can differ depending on the disturbance type. Therefore, the nature of the perturbation and the microbial response are important considerations for management and restoration of drylands.
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