Temporal variation in community composition, pigmentation, and F_v/F_m of desert cyanobacterial soil crusts

Agriculture & Biology

• biological soil crusts 15%
• biomass 6%
• chlorophyll 22%
• Cyanobacteria 9%
• deserts 59%
• dosage 5%
• Microcoleus vaginatus 19%
• national parks 9%
• Nostoc 27%
• pedicel 25%
• physiological state 10%
• pigmentation 61%
• pigments 47%
• plateaus 9%
• sampling 7%
• Scytonema 33%
• soil 15%
• soil crusts 100%
• summer 6%
• sunscreens 28%
• temperature 4%
• temporal variation 66%
• ultraviolet radiation 37%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• biomass 6%
• chlorophyll a 27%
• community composition 57%
• crust 7%
• cyanobacterium 9%
• desert soil 85%
• dosage 9%
• hydration 9%
• mortality 15%
• national park 9%
• pigment 59%
• plateau 7%
• radiation 22%
• radiation protection 13%
• repair 10%
• seasonality 9%
• soil 8%
• soil crust 83%
• soil surface 9%
• summer 5%
• temporal variation 52%