# Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/biocrusts-and-microbial-ecology/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Description | This cluster of papers explores the role of biological soil crusts, particularly focusing on cyanobacteria, in influencing carbon and nitrogen cycles, providing UV protection, exhibiting desiccation tolerance, contributing to microbial diversity, stabilizing soil, impacting hydrological processes, and influencing ecosystem functioning in the context of global change. |
| Domain | Life Sciences |
| Field | Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| OpenAlex ID | t12832 |
| Works | 30 |

## Topic papers all

Showing 15 of 30.

- [Recent advances in betalain research](https://scholariq.org/papers/recent-advances-in-betalain-research/)
- [NOTES: New Perspectives in the Classification of the Flavobacteria: Description of Chryseobacterium gen. nov., Bergeyella gen. nov., and Empedobacter nom. rev.](https://scholariq.org/papers/notes-new-perspectives-in-the-classification-of-the-flavobacteria-description-of/)
- [Metabolomics reveals comprehensive reprogramming involving two independent metabolic responses of Arabidopsis to UV‐B light](https://scholariq.org/papers/metabolomics-reveals-comprehensive-reprogramming-involving-two-independent/)
- [The Penium margaritaceum Genome: Hallmarks of the Origins of Land Plants](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-penium-margaritaceum-genome-hallmarks-of-the-origins-of-land-plants/)
- [Metabolite profiling of mycorrhizal roots of Medicago truncatula](https://scholariq.org/papers/metabolite-profiling-of-mycorrhizal-roots-of-medicago-truncatula/)
- [Stability of microcystins from cyanobacteria—II. Effect of UV light on decomposition and isomerization](https://scholariq.org/papers/stability-of-microcystins-from-cyanobacteria-ii-effect-of-uv-light-on/)
- [Diversified actin protrusions promote environmental exploration but are dispensable for locomotion of leukocytes](https://scholariq.org/papers/diversified-actin-protrusions-promote-environmental-exploration-but-are/)
- [Cell morphology drives spatial patterning in microbial communities](https://scholariq.org/papers/cell-morphology-drives-spatial-patterning-in-microbial-communities/)
- [Natural hydroxyanthraquinoid pigments as potent food grade colorants: an overview](https://scholariq.org/papers/natural-hydroxyanthraquinoid-pigments-as-potent-food-grade-colorants-an-overview/)
- [Mechanically Driven Growth of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Microbial Colonies](https://scholariq.org/papers/mechanically-driven-growth-of-quasi-two-dimensional-microbial-colonies/)
- [Lipid accumulation and growth of Chlorella zofingiensis in flat plate photobioreactors outdoors](https://scholariq.org/papers/lipid-accumulation-and-growth-of-chlorella-zofingiensis-in-flat-plate/)
- [Antitumor activity of the sporoderm-broken germinating spores of Ganoderma lucidum](https://scholariq.org/papers/antitumor-activity-of-the-sporoderm-broken-germinating-spores-of-ganoderma/)
- [Adaptation and Optimization of Biological Transport Networks](https://scholariq.org/papers/adaptation-and-optimization-of-biological-transport-networks/)
- [Stability of Microcystins from cyanobacteria—iv. effect of chlorination on decomposition](https://scholariq.org/papers/stability-of-microcystins-from-cyanobacteria-iv-effect-of-chlorination-on/)
- [Mycosporine and mycosporine-like amino acids: A paramount tool against ultra violet irradiation](https://scholariq.org/papers/mycosporine-and-mycosporine-like-amino-acids-a-paramount-tool-against-ultra/)

## Topic primary papers

- [NOTES: New Perspectives in the Classification of the Flavobacteria: Description of Chryseobacterium gen. nov., Bergeyella gen. nov., and Empedobacter nom. rev.](https://scholariq.org/papers/notes-new-perspectives-in-the-classification-of-the-flavobacteria-description-of/)
- [Mycosporine and mycosporine-like amino acids: A paramount tool against ultra violet irradiation](https://scholariq.org/papers/mycosporine-and-mycosporine-like-amino-acids-a-paramount-tool-against-ultra/)
- [Effects of light intensity and quality on phycobiliprotein accumulation in the cyanobacterium Nostoc sphaeroides Kützing](https://scholariq.org/papers/effects-of-light-intensity-and-quality-on-phycobiliprotein-accumulation-in-the/)

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