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Biological Soil Crusts: Characteristics and Distribution

  • Belnap J
  • Büdel B
  • Lange O
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-56475-8_1
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Abstract

Biological soil crusts result from an intimate association between soil particles and cyanobacteria, algae, microfungi, lichens, and bryophytes (in different proportions) which live within, or immediately on top of, the uppermost millimeters of soil. Soil particles...

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Belnap, J., Büdel, B., & Lange, O. L. (2001). Biological Soil Crusts: Characteristics and Distribution (pp. 3–30). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56475-8_1

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