Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship in soils

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 405-417

  Bowker, Matthew A ^a   Maestre, Fernando T ^a   Escolar, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological soil crusts; Cyanobacteria; Ecosystem functioning; Evenness; Functional groups; Lichens; Mosses; Richness; Trait diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY LOSS; BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS; CYANOBACTERIA; DATA SETS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS; FUNCTION THEORY; FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MODEL SYSTEM; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATH ANALYSIS; RAPID UNDERSTANDING; SOIL BIODIVERSITY; SOIL ORGANISMS; SOIL RESOURCES; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ARID REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; WATER;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DATA SET; LICHEN; MOSS; PATH ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 74149094880     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.10.025     Document Type: Review

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