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Untangling the biological contributions to soil stability in semiarid shrublands Communities of plants, biological soil crusts (BSCs), and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are known to influence soil stability individually, but their relative contributions, interactions, and combined effects are not well understood, particularly in arid and semiarid ecosystems. In a landscape-scale field study we quantified plant, BSC, and AM fungal communities at 216 locations along a gradient of soil stability levels in southern Utah, USA. We used multivariate modeling to examine the relative influences of plants, BSCs, and AM fungi on surface and subsurface stability in a semiarid shrubland landscape. Models were found to be congruent with the data and explained 35% of the variation in surface stability... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Ecological Applications, Ecological Society of America, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, arid ecosystems, biological soil crusts, All tags... erosion control, soil stability, structural equation modeling (SEM), Fewer tags