Microbiotic soil crust and its effect on vegetation and habitat on artificially stabilized desert dunes in Tengger Desert, North China

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 147-154

  Li, X R ^a   Wang, X P ^a   Li, T ^a   Zhang, J G ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Arid desert region; Microbiotic crust; Sand fixing vegetation; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SOIL CRUST; SOIL STABILIZATION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; WIND EROSION;

CHINA;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; MARCHANTIOPHYTA;

EID: 0036938446     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-002-0453-9     Document Type: Article

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