Maximizing establishment and survivorship of field-collected and greenhouse-cultivated biocrusts in a semi-cold desert

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• soil crust 87%
• survivorship 81%
• desert 54%
• cold 46%
• lichen 15%
• moss 15%
• hardening 14%
• cyanobacterium 13%
• soil stability 10%
• nutrient cycle 9%
• hydrologic cycle 9%
• reintroduction 8%
• ecosystem function 7%
• carbon cycle 7%
• rehabilitation 7%
• hydration 6%
• chlorophyll a 6%
• soil surface 6%
• species richness 6%
• organism 4%
• biomass 4%
• method 3%
• soil 3%
• material 2%
• test 2%

Agriculture & Biology

• biological soil crusts 100%
• deserts 62%
• survival rate 53%
• greenhouses 46%
• arid lands 15%
• lichens 14%
• mosses and liverworts 14%
• Cyanobacteria 12%
• soil 10%
• hydrologic cycle 10%
• carbon cycle 9%
• ecological function 8%
• biogeochemical cycles 8%
• species richness 6%
• methodology 5%
• chlorophyll 5%
• biomass 4%
• organisms 4%
• testing 2%