ArticleScientific reports2017
Albedo feedbacks to future climate via climate change impacts on dryland biocrusts.
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- Cyanotoxin accumulation and growth patterns of biocrust communities under variable environmental conditions.Toxicon: X · 2024Article
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- Responses of Biocrust and Associated Soil Bacteria to Novel Climates Are Not Tightly Coupled.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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- Evaluation of MODIS-derived estimates of the albedo over the Atacama Desert using ground-based spectral measurements.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Incorporating Biogeochemistry into Dryland Restoration.Bioscience · 2021Article
- The macroevolutionary dynamics of symbiotic and phenotypic diversification in lichens.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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- Simulated climate change affects how biocrusts modulate water gains and desiccation dynamics after rainfall events.Ecohydrology : ecosystems, land and water process interactions, ecohydrogeomorphology · 2018Article
- Advanced Photogrammetry to Assess Lichen Colonization in the Hyper-Arid Namib Desert.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Drylands represent the planet's largest terrestrial biome and evidence suggests these landscapes have large potential for creating feedbacks to future climate. Recent studies also indicate that dryland ecosystems are responding markedly to climate change. Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) ‒ soil surface communities of lichens, mosses, and/or cyanobacteria ‒ comprise up to 70% of dryland cover and help govern fundamental ecosystem functions, including soil stabilization and carbon uptake. Drylands are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation regimes, and such alterations may impact biocrust communities by promoting rapid mortality of foundational species. In turn, biocrust community shifts affect land surface cover and roughness-changes that can dramatically alter albedo. We tested this hypothesis in a full-factorial warming (+4 °C above ambient) and altered precipitation (increased frequency of 1.2 mm monsoon-type watering events) experiment on the Colorado Plateau, USA. We quantified changes in shortwave albedo via multi-angle, solar-reflectance measurements. Warming and watering treatments each led to large increases in albedo (>30%). This increase was driven by biophysical factors related to treatment effects on cyanobacteria cover and soil surface roughness following treatment-induced moss and lichen mortality. A rise in dryland surface albedo may represent a previously unidentified feedback to future climate.
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