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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1161-2018
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1161-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Antagonistic effects of drought and sand burial enable the survival of the biocrust moss Bryum argenteum in an arid sandy desert
Rongliang Jia
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Donggang West Road, Lanzhou 730000, China
Yun Zhao
Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Donggang West Road, Lanzhou 730000, China
Yanhong Gao
Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Donggang West Road, Lanzhou 730000, China
Rong Hui
Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Donggang West Road, Lanzhou 730000, China
Haotian Yang
Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Donggang West Road, Lanzhou 730000, China
Zenru Wang
Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Donggang West Road, Lanzhou 730000, China
Yixuan Li
Agronomy College, Agricultural University of Shenyang, Shenyang 110866, China
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- Variations in the coverage of biological soil crusts along an aridity gradient in the central-west Argentina A. Navas Romero et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103671
- Amendments fail to hasten biocrust recovery or soil stability at a disturbed dryland sandy site D. Chandler et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12870
- Biocrusts alleviate the aggravating C limitation in microbial respiration with increasing aridity Y. Su et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116210
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- Dark behaviour of Timmiella tubers: germination, burial and longevity A. Russell et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736687.2025.2587996
- Recent literature on bryophytes — 121(3) J. Atwood & W. Buck https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.426
- Prehydration mitigates damage accrued from prolonged periods of desiccation in cultured shoot apices of Syntrichia ruralis M. Slate et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736687.2020.1833157
- Vascular Plant Traits Shape Biocrust Community Structure in a Diverse Arid Shrubland M. Bustos et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70041
- Effects of sand burial caused by ant nests on soil microbial biomass, basal respiration, and enzyme activity in/under biocrusts in vegetated areas of the Tennger Desert Y. Liu et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4227
- A model species in focus: the silver-thread moss Bryum argenteum as a model for ecological and evolutionary studies W. dos Santos et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-026-10391-6
- Rapid artificial biocrust development by cyanobacterial inoculation and clay amendment Z. Keqiang et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4716
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Short summary
Why can biocrust moss survive and flourish in these habitats when stressed simultaneously by drought and sand burial? A field experiment was conducted to assess the combined effects of the two stressors on Bryum argenteum within biocrust. The two stressors did not exacerbate the single negative effects; their mutually antagonistic effect on the physiological vigor of B. argenteum was found, and it provided an opportunity for it to overcome the two co-occurring stressors in arid sandy ecosystems.
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