Cyanobacterial soil crusts are a community of microorganisms living in the soil surface of
different habitats worldwide. Through photosynthesis, cyanobacteria produce extracellular …

Land degradation is widespread and a serious threat affecting the livelihoods of 1.5 billion
people worldwide of which one sixth or 250 million people reside in drylands. Globally, it is …

Water and nutrients are scarce resources in arid and semiarid ecosystems. In these regions,
biological soil crusts (BSCs) occupy a large part of the soil surface in the open spaces …

Aeolian processes affect the biosphere in a wide variety of contexts, including landform
evolution, biogeochemical cycles, regional climate, human health, and desertification …

In present-day alluvial environments, the impact of vegetation on sedimentological
processes and deposits is well known. A vegetated catchment may decrease sediment yield …

This paper identifies new ways of moving from land degradation towards sustainable land
management through the development of economic mechanisms. It identifies new …

Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are found in all dryland regions of the world, including the polar
regions. They are also known to occur in the southern African region. Although there were a …

For more than four decades remote sensing images have been used to document and
understand the evolution of aeolian sand dunes. Early studies focused on mapping and …

Natural recovery of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) is influenced by a number of different
parameters, such as climate, soil conditions, the severity of disturbance, and the timing of …

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are heterogeneously distributed in space, and the drivers of
their distribution depend on the spatial scale of observation. Globally, there are about 1544 …