Some updated information on next summer's crust conference in Madrid, including format, schedule, and fees.
Maestre Lab: Second International Workshop on Biological Soil C...: We are pleased to announce the Second International Workshop on Biological Soil Cruts, which follows the successful first Workshop c...
Friday, September 14, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Tiny forests in the Utah desert
Mi amiga Sasha Reed on a short PRX radio piece by Jennifer Jarret about biological crusts, dust, etc.
Piece Description
From Arches National Park, we get a close-up view of a living groundcover called "biological soil crust." This groundcover, made up of tiny organisms like mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria, helps to stablize the soil surface; "holding the place in place." It is extremely resilient to wind and water, but particularly sensitive to compressive forces like stepping or driving on the crust. Once disturbed by these kinds of compressive forces, the soil -- the place -- can start to blow away. This kind of destruction is not unike deforestation; just...smaller. Listen as Dr. Sasha Reed, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, explains why seemingly localized impacts to Utah's crust communities have much greater implications for the western U.S. Reed was awarded the Presidentai Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2011.
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Death Valley recognized with posting world’s hottest temperature -- 99 years later
News quirk for the desert enthusiasts. Having grown up in the Mojave Desert I feel vindicated somehow.
Death Valley recognized with posting world’s hottest temperature -- 99 years later
Death Valley recognized with posting world’s hottest temperature -- 99 years later
Friday, September 7, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
SCIN: Soil crust international ... new project, new website
The new website here, also I am adding it permanently to the resources at right. This is a European network of researchers in Spain, Germany, Austria, and Sweden. They are establishing an array of study sites to observe all things crust (diversity, C flux, genetics, hydrology, in a variety of European habitats ranging from semi-arid to alpine.
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| A nice shot of a Catapyrenium from the Tabernas Badlands site in Almeria (Soil Crust International). |
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Biological Soil Crusts Course: October 6, Desert Institute, Joshua Tree National Park, California
Course registration link below, this one is taught by Dr. Nicole Pietrasiak. Contact the Desert Institute for more information.
Biological Soil Crusts
Biological Soil Crusts
Monday, September 3, 2012
Inferring local competition intensity from patch size distributions: a test using biological soil crusts Bowker 2012 Oikos Wiley Online Library
Inferring local competition intensity from patch size distributions: a test using biological soil crusts Bowker 2012 Oikos Wiley Online Library
A recent one by Fernando and I.
I just finished posting several biocrust papers from 2012, there would have been more if more publishers used share buttons. Kudos to Wiley. Boo to ESA, Springer, Elsevier. Why wouldn't you embrace every tool for sharing the abstract of papers you've published? Wierd.
Anyway, I'll see if I can dig up more recent references and post them later.
A recent one by Fernando and I.
I just finished posting several biocrust papers from 2012, there would have been more if more publishers used share buttons. Kudos to Wiley. Boo to ESA, Springer, Elsevier. Why wouldn't you embrace every tool for sharing the abstract of papers you've published? Wierd.
Anyway, I'll see if I can dig up more recent references and post them later.
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