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.

A nice shot of a Catapyrenium from the Tabernas Badlands site in Almeria (Soil Crust International).