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Research article
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22 Jun 2018
Research article |
| 22 Jun 2018
| 22 Jun 2018
Fungal loop transfer of nitrogen depends on biocrust constituents and nitrogen form
Zachary T. Aanderud
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University,
Provo, UT 84602, USA
Trevor B. Smart
Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University,
Provo, UT 84602, USA
Nan Wu
Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Key Laboratory of
Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Urumqi 830011, China
Alexander S. Taylor
Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University,
Provo, UT 84602, USA
Yuanming Zhang
Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Key Laboratory of
Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Urumqi 830011, China
Jayne Belnap
US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, 2290 SW
Resource Blvd., Moab, UT 84532, USA
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- The Burning of Biocrusts Facilitates the Emergence of a Bare Soil Community of Poorly-Connected Chemoheterotrophic Bacteria With Depressed Ecosystem Services Z. Aanderud et al. 10.3389/fevo.2019.00467
- Uptake of biocrust nitrogen by tree crops in a sandy soil agroecosystem C. Nevins et al. 10.1007/s10705-023-10334-5
- Nitrogen mineralization in grazed BSC subsoil is mediated by itself and vegetation in the Loess Plateau, China J. Zhang et al. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117647
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- Biocrust diazotrophs and bacteria rather than fungi are sensitive to chronic low N deposition X. Rong et al. 10.1111/1462-2920.16095
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Short summary
Besides performing multiple ecosystem services individually and collectively, biocrust constituents may also create biological networks connecting spatially and temporally distinct processes. We found evidence of fungal loops within biocrusts but only in cyanobacteria-dominated crusts for the inorganic N form NH4+. Combined with our sequencing effort, our findings suggest that even localized, minor rainfall events may allow dark septate Pleosporales to rapidly translocate N within biocrusts.
Besides performing multiple ecosystem services individually and collectively, biocrust...
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