Relationships between the biomass of algal crusts in fields and their compressive strength

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 567-572

  Xie, Zuoming ^a,b,c   Liu, Yongding ^a   Hu, Chunxiang ^a   Chen, Lanzhou ^d   Li, Dunhai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blue green algae; Compressive strength; Cyanobacteria; Desert algal crusts; EPS; Rain erosion; Scytonemin; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EROSION; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

BLUE-GREEN ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; DESERT ALGAL CRUSTS; RAIN EROSION; SCYTONEMIN; WIND EROSION;

ALGAE;

ALGAL COMMUNITY; BIOMASS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CYANOBACTERIUM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCOLEUS VAGINATUS; PHORMIDIUM TENUE; SCYTONEMA JAVANICUM;

EID: 33751406127     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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