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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 Biological Soil Crust Rehabilitation in Theory and Practice: An Underexploited Opportunity Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are ubiquitous lichen?bryophyte microbial communities, which are critical structural and functional components of many ecosystems. However, BSCs are rarely addressed in the restoration literature. The purposes of this review were to examine the ecological roles BSCs play in succession models, the backbone of restoration theory, and to discuss the practical aspects of rehabilitating BSCs to disturbed ecosystems. Most evidence indicates that BSCs facilitate succession to later seres, suggesting that assisted recovery of BSCs could speed up succession. Because BSCs are ecosystem engineers in high abiotic stress systems, loss of BSCs may be synonymous with crossing degradation thresholds.... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Restoration Ecology, arid lands, cryptobiotic soil crusts, cryptogams, degradation thresholds, All tags... state-and-transition models, succession, Fewer tags Revisiting classic water erosion models in drylands: The strong impact of biological soil crusts Soil erosion and subsequent degradation has been a contributor to societal collapse in the past and is one of the major expressions of desertification in arid regions. The revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE) models soil lost to water erosion as a function of climate erosivity (the degree to which rainfall can result in erosion), topography, soil erodibility, and land use/management. The soil erodibility factor (K) is primarily based upon inherent soil properties (those which change slowly or not at all) such as soil texture and organic matter content, while the cover/management factor (C) is based on several parameters including biological soil crust (BSC) cover. We examined the effect of two more precise... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, arid and semi-arid regions, cryptobiotic soil crusts, cryptogams, cyanobacteria, All tags... erosion modeling, universal soil loss equation, Fewer tags