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Warming decreases desert ecosystem functioning by altering biocrusts in drylands

Journal of Applied Ecology, 2023
Warming and precipitation fluctuations are changing desert ecosystems in global drylands. However, the effects of climate change on keystone species such as cryptogamic biocrust in drylands remain relatively under‐investigated, even though biocrusts ...
Xinrong Li   +7 more
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Consistent effects of vegetation patch type on soil microbial communities across three successional stages in a desert ecosystem

Land Degradation and Development, 2022
Desertification is a worldwide problem caused by climate change and human activity in dryland regions. In China, approximately 27% of the land surface is desertified.
Jie Yu   +6 more
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Granivory in Desert Ecosystems [PDF]

open access: possibleAnnual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1979
Some of the most challenging questions of contemporary biology concern the diversity and stability of ecological communities. In most natural habi­ tats many coexisting species of plants, animals, and microbes interact as competitors, mutualists, predators, and prey.
Diane W. Davidson   +2 more
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A nurse shrub species helps associated herbaceous plants by preventing shade‐induced evaporation in a desert ecosystem

Land Degradation and Development, 2020
Xeric shrubs often play an important role in reversing desertification and promoting ecological restoration of degraded dryland ecosystems. However, how shrubs affect their associated herbaceous species and environmental conditions remains largely ...
Liang Liu   +5 more
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Desert Steppe Ecosystem

2020
This chapter focuses on Chinese desert steppe ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type, simply discusses the relevant physical features and climatic characteristics at a regional scale, elaborates in great detail upon the flora, fauna, and microflora composing the various desert ...
Linghao Li   +4 more
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