Editorial: Biological soil crusts: spatio-temporal development and ecological functions of soil surface microbial communities across different scales

Shubin Lan; David R Elliott; Sonia Chamizo; Vincent J M N L Felde; Andrew D Thomas

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2024.1447058

Editorial: Biological soil crusts: spatio-temporal development and ecological functions of soil surface microbial communities across different scales

Front Microbiol. 2024 Jul 30:15:1447058. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1447058. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Shubin Lan^{1

2}, David R Elliott³, Sonia Chamizo⁴, Vincent J M N L Felde⁵, Andrew D Thomas⁶

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
² Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Northeast Normal University, Songyuan, China.
³ Nature-Based Solutions Research Centre, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom.
⁴ Desertification and Geoecology Department, Experimental Station of Arid Zones (EEZA, CSIC), Almería, Spain.
⁵ Institute of Earth System Sciences, Section Soil Science, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany.
⁶ Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: biocrusts; ecological functions; habitats; microbial community; recovery.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U2003120) and the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (B16011).