Academic Journal
Optimizing the Production of Nursery-Based Biological Soil Crusts for Restoration of Arid Land Soils
| العنوان: | Optimizing the Production of Nursery-Based Biological Soil Crusts for Restoration of Arid Land Soils |
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| المؤلفون: | Bethany, Julie, Giraldo-Silva, Ana, Nelson, Corey, Barger, Nichole N., Garcia-Pichel, Ferran |
| المساهمون: | Stams, Alfons J. M., DOD | Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program |
| المصدر: | Applied and Environmental Microbiology ; volume 85, issue 15 ; ISSN 0099-2240 1098-5336 |
| بيانات النشر: | American Society for Microbiology |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| الوصف: | Biocrust communities provide important ecosystem services for arid land soils, such as soil surface stabilization promoting erosion resistance and contributing to overall soil fertility. Anthropogenic degradation to biocrust communities (through livestock grazing, agriculture, urban sprawl, and trampling) is common and significant, resulting in a loss of those ecosystem services. Losses impact both the health of the native ecosystem and the public health of local populations due to enhanced dust emissions. Because of this, approaches for biocrust restoration are being developed worldwide. Here, we present optimization of a nursery-based approach to scaling up the production of biocrust inoculum for field restoration with respect to temporal dynamics and reuse of biological materials. Unexpectedly, we also report on complex population dynamics, significant spatial variability, and lower than expected yields that we ascribe to the demonstrable presence of cyanobacterial pathogens, the spread of which may be enhanced by some of the nursery production standard practices. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1128/aem.00735-19 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/AEM.00735-19 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.00735-19 https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.00735-19 |
| Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; https://journals.asm.org/non-commercial-tdm-license |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.6A1557EE |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1128/aem.00735-19 |
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