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- Unlocking the potential of biocrust microorganisms in agriculture: cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria with plant growth-promoting properties.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Nimble vs. torpid responders to hydration pulse duration among soil microbes.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Metatranscriptomes of two biological soil crust types from the Mojave desert in response to wetting.Microbiology resource announcements · 2024Article
- BONCAT-FACS-Seq reveals the active fraction of a biocrust community undergoing a wet-up event.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Long-read metagenomics of soil communities reveals phylum-specific secondary metabolite dynamics.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Mining Synergistic Microbial Interactions: A Roadmap on How to Integrate Multi-Omics Data.Microorganisms · 2021Review
- Distribution of Mixotrophy and Desiccation Survival Mechanisms across Microbial Genomes in an Arid Biological Soil Crust Community.mSystems · 2021Article
- Preliminary Assessment of Microbial Community Structure of Wind-Tidal Flats in the Laguna Madre, Texas, USA.Biology · 2020Article
- Taxon-specific microbial growth and mortality patterns reveal distinct temporal population responses to rewetting in a California grassland soil.The ISME journal · 2020Article
- Soil Water Contents Control the Responses of Dissolved Nitrogen Pools and Bacterial Communities to Freeze-Thaw in Temperate Soils.BioMed research international · 2020Article
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- Chronic Physical Disturbance Substantially Alters the Response of Biological Soil Crusts to a Wetting Pulse, as Characterized by Metatranscriptomic Sequencing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) account for a substantial portion of primary production in dryland ecosystems. They successionally mature to deliver a suite of ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration, water retention and nutrient cycling, and climate regulation. Biocrust assemblages are extremely well adapted to survive desiccation and to rapidly take advantage of the periodic precipitation events typical of arid ecosystems. Here we focus on the wetting response of incipient cyanobacterial crusts as they mature from "light" to "dark." We sampled a cyanobacterial biocrust chronosequence before (dry) and temporally following a controlled wetting event and used high-throughput 16S rRNA and rRNA gene sequencing to monitor the dynamics of microbial response. Overall, shorter-term changes in phylogenetic beta diversity attributable to periodic wetting were as large as those attributable to biocrust successional stage. Notably, more mature crusts showed significantly higher resistance to precipitation disturbance. A large bloom of a few taxa within the
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