Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 39, 2015, Pages 12116-12121

  Ferrenberg, Scott ^a   Reed, Sasha C ^a   Belnap, Jayne ^a   Schlesinger, William H ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate states; Biocrusts; Community structure; Secondary succession; Warming

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUST; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HETEROTROPH; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MOSS; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SUMMER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ECOSYSTEM; HETEROTROPHY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; UTAH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRYOPHYTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LICHENS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RAIN; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; UTAH;

EID: 84942943330     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509150112     Document Type: Article

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