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Articles | Volume 14, issue 17
Articles | Volume 14, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3957-2017
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Articles | Volume 14, issue 17
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13 Sep 2017
Research article |  | 13 Sep 2017

Recovery of biological soil crust richness and cover 12–16 years after wildfires in Idaho, USA

Heather T. Root, John C. Brinda, and E. Kyle Dodson

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We evaluated soil crust communities 12–16 years after four wildfires in Idaho, USA, compared with adjacent unburned plots. We found that richness and abundance were lower in burned plots and that the cover of soil crusts was more strongly affected by wildfire at sites with well-developed soil crusts. Furthermore, we found that three large functional groups of lichens and mosses were associated with unburned sites and that fire severity was not related to post-fire soil crust communities.
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