ReviewJournal of experimental botany2022
Ecology and responses to climate change of biocrust-forming mosses in drylands.
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- Photosynthetic and secondary metabolic responses of biological soil crusts to combined warming, reduced precipitation, and enhanced UV-B radiation: divergent strategies across developmental stages.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
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- Shrub mitigate the negative impacts of drought on the ecological adaptability of Syntrichia caninervis in the desert regions of Northwest China.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Outstanding Ultra-Low Freezing Tolerance in Moss Species: Insights From Recovery Ability.Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Long-term coordinated morphological and hydrological traits of desert mosses in an arid temperate desert.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Water-Holding Capacity, Ion Release, and Saturation Dynamics of Mosses as Micro-Scale Buffers Against Water Stress in Semi-Arid Ecosystems.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Can biocrust moss hide from climate change? Fine-scale habitat sheltering improves summer stress resistance in Syntrichia caninervis.American journal of botany · 2025Article
- Environmental gradients shape genetic variation in the desert moss, Syntrichia caninervis Mitt. (Pottiaceae).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Polyphasic taxonomy and genome mining ofCurrent research in microbial sciences · 2025Article
- Habitat suitability of biocrust communities in a cold desert ecosystem.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The interaction of climate, plant, and soil factors drives putative soil fungal pathogen diversity and community structure in dry grasslands.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- Cultivating Resilience in Dryland Soils: An Assisted Migration Approach to Biological Soil Crust Restoration.Microorganisms · 2023Article
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Abstract
Interest in understanding the role of biocrusts as ecosystem engineers in drylands has substantially increased during the past two decades. Mosses are a major component of biocrusts and dominate their late successional stages. In general, their impacts on most ecosystem functions are greater than those of early-stage biocrust constituents. However, it is common to find contradictory results regarding how moss interactions with different biotic and abiotic factors affect ecosystem processes. This review aims to (i) describe the adaptations and environmental constraints of biocrust-forming mosses in drylands, (ii) identify their primary ecological roles in these ecosystems, and (iii) synthesize their responses to climate change. We emphasize the importance of interactions between specific functional traits of mosses (e.g. height, radiation reflectance, morphology, and shoot densities) and both the environment (e.g. climate, topography, and soil properties) and other organisms to understand their ecological roles and responses to climate change. We also highlight key areas that should be researched in the future to fill essential gaps in our understanding of the ecology and the responses to ongoing climate change of biocrust-forming mosses. These include a better understanding of intra- and interspecific interactions and mechanisms driving mosses' carbon balance during desiccation-rehydration cycles.
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