Soil crust information

Biological soil crusts are communities of living organisms on the soil surface in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. They are found throughout the world with...

Soil crusts are soil surface layers that are distinct from the rest of the bulk soil, often hardened with a platy surface. Depending on the manner of formation...

Bread crust, the dense surface layer of bread Crust (geology), the outer layer of a rocky planetary body Soil crust, the soil surface layer Crust (album)...

been comparatively barren – with nothing more complex than a microbial soil crust and a few mollusks and arthropods (albeit not terrestrial) that emerged...

downy brome. Research has shown that ecosystems with a healthy biological soil crust and native plant community will be resistant to B. tectorum invasion....

communities. It has been widely reported that cyanobacteria soil crusts help to stabilize soil to prevent erosion and retain water. An example of a cyanobacterial...

foot traffic. Methods of indicating effects on the soil are cytophobic soil crust index, measuring of water infiltration, and t-tests that are used to compare...

walls, gravestones, roofs, exposed soil surfaces, rubber, bones, and in the soil as part of biological soil crusts. Various lichens have adapted to survive...

Cooperative Soil Survey, applied it to a national soil classification system. Environment portal Geology portal Acid sulfate soil Agrophysics Crust Agricultural...

soils containing clay prevent soil crusting stop erosion and water runoff make friable soil that is easy to cultivate make soil dry quicker after rain or...

desert fungi are a variety of terricolous fungi inhabiting the biological soil crust of arid regions. Those exposed to the sun typically contain melanin and...

common in biological soil crust communities. In the Intermountain West of the United States, for example, almost 60% of all soil lichens are squamulose...

the surface helps prevent the destruction of soil structure and the creation of soil crusts. Depth of soil to impervious layers such as hardpans or bedrock...

found in a variety of habitats, including fresh water and biological soil crusts in deserts. The genus Tetradesmus was described by Gilbert Morgan Smith...

entirely covered by regolith, a layer of rock, soil, and minerals that forms the outer part of the crust. Land plays an important role in Earth's climate...

improved root penetration and access to soil moisture and nutrients; improved emergence of seedlings due to reduced crusting of the surface; and greater water...

(2006-02-01). "Nitrogen Fixation and Leaching of Biological Soil Crust Communities in Mesic Temperate Soils". Microbial Ecology. 51 (2): 189–196. doi:10.1007/s00248-005-0121-3...

In Joshua Tree National Park, it is the most common of the biological soil crust lichens. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 1, Nash...

Primeval redwood forests, coastal mangrove stands, sphagnum bogs, desert soil crusts, roadside weed patches, wheat fields, cultivated gardens and lawns; all...

has been removed from the atmosphere can also be stored in the Earth's crust by injecting it underground, or in the form of insoluble carbonate salts...

without structural damage. Where a thin crust of non-liquefied soil exists between building foundation and liquefied soil, a 'punching shear' type foundation...

exile. Sita was thirsty and Ram pierced an arrow through the Earth's soil crust and through that water gushed out. Sita quenched her thirst. The place...

suggests that soil fungi in arid ecosystems connect the metabolic activity of plants and biological soil crusts which respond to different soil moisture levels...

(such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location...

which has led to terracing from cattle paths and the formation of a soil crust, and soil acidification, which poses a risk to some grasslands as of 2002....

covered in communities of cryptobiotic soil crusts, which prevents soil erosion and promotes the retention of soil nutrients. Natural Bridges National Monument...

understanding of soil is Nikiforoff's 1959 definition of soil as the "excited skin of the sub aerial part of the Earth's crust". Academically, soil scientists...