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- Hundred-year-old dirt may be able to help restore damaged desert
Transplanting masses of microscopic organisms called "biocrusts" to damaged drylands has been shown to successfully increase soil stability and plant drought resistance both in the field and in greenhouse plots
- Biocrust restoration and nutrient cycling - GSEPartners
Because biocrusts play an important role in carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling, it is becoming increasingly important to know where biocrusts are and how they might be affected by ecological change, so that proactive management solutions can be implemented
- Optimizing the Production of Nursery-Based Biological Soil Crusts for . . .
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
- Navigating the possibilities and pitfalls of biocrust recovery in a . . .
Although they can withstand a wide range of temperatures and long periods without precipitation, biocrusts are highly sensitive to land-use change and are vulnerable to physical and compressional disturbance (i e , trampling, vehicles, cattle, heavy machinery)
- From farm to field: testing different biocrust cultivation approaches . . .
This project evaluated approaches to reliably establish cultivated biocrusts in the field and how cultivated biocrusts and native seeds interact in a restoration context
- Restoring Biocrust – SCIENCE MOAB
These efforts effectively restore biocrusts in different ecosystems using a variety of lab and field methods, providing a useful resource for the scientific community as well as land managers
- The Importance of Biocrust | The Nature Conservancy in Utah
The scale of the biocrusts’ growth on the farm was a major coup, and Dr Reed is highlighting another innovative aspect of this experiment: the transplant process When scientists prepared to introduce the farm-grown biocrust to its new home on the Colorado Plateau, they tried something different
- Developing biocrust field cultivation techniques for soil restoration . . .
The Mojave biocrusts were dominated by lichens and cyanobacteria At all sites, we used hand tools to scrape biocrusts from the soil surface to 1 cm depth, then stored the material indoors, dry, in the dark, and at room temperature for 2–6 months until used
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