Crust vegetation
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Name (Hebrew)
צמחיית קרום
Name (Latin)
Crust vegetation
Name (Arabic)
نباتات القشرة الأرضية
Other forms of name
Biocrusts
Biological soil crusts
Biotic soil crusts
Crusts, Biological soil
Cryptobiotic soil crusts
Cryptogamic soil crusts
Microbiotic soil crusts
Soil crusts, Biological
Vegetation, Crust
See Also From tracing topical name
Biotic communities
Cryptogams Ecology
Soil crusting
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q5190811
Library of congress:
sh2016001359
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Condon, Lea. Biological Soil Crusts of the Great Basin : An Examination of their Distribution, Recovery from Disturbance and Restoration, 2016 :page 3 (Biocrusts refer to a community of lichens, mosses, cyanobacteria, fungi, etc. that live on the soil surface)
- McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms, 2003 :(Crust vegetation: Zonal growths of algae, mosses, lichens, or liverworts having variable coverage and a thickness of only a few centimeters)
- Rosentreter, R. A Field Guide to Biological Soil Crusts of Western U.S. Drylands, 2007(Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are an intimate association between soil particles and cyanobacteria, algae, microfungi, lichens, and bryophytes (in different proportions) which live within or on top of the uppermost millimeters of soil. These communities have been known by a variety of names, including cryptobiotic, cryptogamic, and microbiotic soil crusts)
- McCune, B. Biotic soil crust lichens of the Columbia Basin, 2007.