Articles | Volume 15, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4561-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4561-2018
Research article
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26 Jul 2018
Research article |  | 26 Jul 2018

Patterns of longer-term climate change effects on CO2 efflux from biocrusted soils differ from those observed in the short term

Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Sasha C. Reed, Edmund E. Grote, and Jayne Belnap

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Belnap, J.: The potential roles of biological soil crusts in dryland hydrologic cycles, Hydrol. Process., 20, 3159–3178, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6325, 2006. 
Belnap, J. and Phillips, S. L.: Soil biota in an ungrazed grassland: Response to annual grass (Bromus tectorum) invasion, Ecol. Appl., 11, 1261–1275, 2001. 
Belnap, J., Phillips, S. L., and Troxler, T.: Soil lichen and moss cover and species richness can be highly dynamic: The effects of invasion by the annual exotic grass Bromus tectorum, precipitation, and temperature on biological soil crusts in SE Utah, Appl. Soil Ecol., 32, 63–76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2004.12.010, 2006. 
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