Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts
Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts
Scott Ferrenberg,S. Reed,J. Belnap
2015 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509150112
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 引用数 266
TLDR
The results suggest that multiple aspects of climate change will affect biocrusts to the same degree as physical disturbance, particularly disconcerting in the context of warming.