Shifting Cyanobacterial Diversity in Response to Agricultural Soils Associated with Dust Emission

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 878-886

  Katra, Itzhak ^a   Laor, Shimrit ^a   Swet, Nitzan ^a   Kushmaro, Ariel ^a   Ben Dov, Eitan ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ACHVA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

aeolian processes; biological soil crusts; cyanobacteria; semiarid; soil degradation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; BACTERIA; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE; SOILS;

AEOLIAN PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS; CYANOBACTERIA; SEMIARID; SOIL DEGRADATION;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CYANOBACTERIUM; DUST; EOLIAN PROCESS; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CRUST; SOIL DEGRADATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 85006487042     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2644     Document Type: Article

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