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Spatial Modeling of Biological Soil Crusts to Support Rangeland Assessment and Monitoring Biological soil crusts are a diverse soil surface community, prevalent in semiarid regions, which function as ecosystem engineers and perform numerous important ecosystem services. Loss of crusts has been implicated as a factor leading to accelerated soil erosion and other forms of land degradation. To support assessment and monitoring efforts aimed at ensuring the sustainability of rangeland ecosystems, managers require spatially explicit information concerning potential cover and composition of biological soil crusts. We sampled low disturbance sites in Grand Staircase?Escalante National Monument (Utah, USA) to determine the feasibility of modeling the potential cover and composition of biological soil crusts... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Rangeland Ecology & Management, Society for Range Management, cryptobiotic soil crusts, degradation thresholds, drylands, All tags... lichens, mosses, rangeland health, Fewer tags