Beneficial Cyanosphere Heterotrophs Accelerate Establishment of Cyanobacterial Biocrust.

ABSTRACT: Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are communities of microbes that inhabit the surface of arid soils and provide essential services to dryland ecosystems. While resistant to extreme environmental conditions, biocrusts are susceptible to anthropogenic disturbances that can deprive ecosystems of these valuable services for decades. Until recently, culture-based efforts to produce inoculum for cyanobacterial biocrust restoration in the southwestern United States focused on producing and inoculating the most abundant primary producers and biocrust pioneers, Microcoleus vaginatus and members of the family Coleofasciculaceae (also called Microcoleus steenstrupii complex). The discovery that a unique microbial community characterized by diazotrophs, known as the cyanosphere, is intimately

SUBMITTER: Nelson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8478466 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature