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Addressing barriers to improve biocrust colonization and establishment in dryland restoration

Scientific article published in November 2019

Are Namibian "fairy circles" the consequence of self-organizing spatial vegetation patterning?

scientific article published in 2013

Assessing land condition as a first step to achieving land degradation neutrality: A case study of the Republic of Srpska

scientific article published on 29 September 2018

Assessing the Impact of Science in the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

scientific article published in 2022

Author Correction: Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

correction of a scholarly article

Biocrust and the soil surface: Influence of climate, disturbance, and biocrust recovery on soil surface roughness

scientific article

Biocrusts and their disturbance mediate the recruitment of native and exotic grasses from a hot desert ecosystem

scientific article

Biocrusts are associated with increased plant biomass and nutrition at seedling stage independently of root-associated fungal colonization

scientific article

Biological soil crust and disturbance controls on surface hydrology in a semi-arid ecosystem

scientific article published in 2017

Broader Impacts for Ecologists: Biological Soil Crust as a Model System for Education

scientific article

Competitive resistance of a native shrubland to invasion by the alien invasive tree species, Acacia cyclops

scientific article published on 19 September 2015

Constraints to colonization and growth of the African grass, Melinis minutiflora, in a Venezuelan savanna

article

Denitrification from nitrogen-fixing biologically crusted soils in a cool desert environment, southeast Utah, USA

article published in 2013

Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

article by Nancy Shackelford et al published 22 July 2021 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Dryland Ecosystems

scholarly article

Ecophysiological traits associated with the competitive ability of invasive Australian acacias

article

Ecophysiological traits of invasive alien Acacia cyclops compared to co-occuring native species in Strandveld vegetation of the Cape Floristic Region

scientific article

Fairy circles in Namibia are assembled from genetically distinct grasses

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Generalist indigenous herbivores resist alien tree invasion: Rhabdomys pumilio limits establishment of Acacia cyclops

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

How to halt the global decline of lands

scientific article

Hydrologic function of rapidly induced biocrusts

Impacts of disturbance on the terrestrial carbon budget of North America

article

Induced biological soil crust controls on wind erodibility and dust (PM10) emissions

scientific article published in 2019

Influence of Livestock Grazing and Climate on Pinyon Pine (Pinus edulis) Dynamics

article

Inoculation and habitat amelioration efforts in biological soil crust recovery vary by desert and soil texture

scholarly article

Interacting effects of climate and landscape physiography on piñon pine growth using an individual-based approach

scientific article published in 2017

Interpretation of high-resolution imagery for detecting vegetation cover composition change after fuels reduction treatments in woodlands

article

Limits to understory plant restoration following fuel-reduction treatments in a piñon-juniper woodland

scientific article published on 27 July 2014

Linkages between microbial and hydrologic processes in arid and semiarid watersheds

article

Long-term effects of chaining treatments on vegetation structure in piñon–juniper woodlands of the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published in 2013

Maximizing establishment and survivorship of field-collected and greenhouse-cultivated biocrusts in a semi-cold desert

Microbial Nursery Production of High-Quality Biological Soil Crust Biomass for Restoration of Degraded Dryland Soils

scientific article

Microbial inoculum production for biocrust restoration: testing the effects of a common substrate versus native soils on yield and community composition

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Microsite enhancements for soil stabilization and rapid biocrust colonization in degraded drylands

Scientific article published in December 2019

Modeling regional variation in net primary production of pinyon–juniper ecosystems

article

Multiscale analysis of tree cover and aboveground carbon stocks in pinyon-juniper woodlands

scientific article

Nursing biocrusts: isolation, cultivation, and fitness test of indigenous cyanobacteria

scientific article published on 24 December 2018

Optimizing the Production of Nursery-Based Biological Soil Crusts for Restoration of Arid Land Soils

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Patterns and Controls on Nitrogen Cycling of Biological Soil Crusts

scientific article published in 2016

Regional aboveground live carbon losses due to drought-induced tree dieback in piñon–juniper ecosystems

article by Cho-ying Huang et al published July 2010 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Spatially Explicit Rangeland Erosion Monitoring Using High-Resolution Digital Aerial Imagery

scientific article published in 2016

Species, Climate and Landscape Physiography Drive Variable Growth Trends in Subalpine Forests

The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta‐analysis

scientific article

Tree regeneration following drought‐ and insect‐induced mortality in piñon–juniper woodlands ⬇️

scientific article published on June 17, 2013

Twentieth century carbon stock changes related to Piñon-Juniper expansion into a black sagebrush community

scientific article

Ultra‐high‐resolution mapping of biocrusts with Unmanned Aerial Systems

scientific article

Understory Plant Community Responses to Fuel-Reduction Treatments and Seeding in an Upland Piñon-Juniper Woodland

article

What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community

scientific article published on 18 May 2022

Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world

scientific article published in 2019

Woodland recovery following drought-induced tree mortality across an environmental stress gradient

scientific article

Woody plant proliferation in North American drylands: A synthesis of impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

scholarly article

Written lab agreements improve mentoring

scientific article published in Nature

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