• Broader Impacts for Ecologists: Biological Soil Crust as a Model System for Education 

      Faist, Akasha M.; Antoninka, Anita J.; Barger, Nichole N.; Bowker, Matthew A.; Chaudhary, Veer Bala; Havrilla, Caroline A.; Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth; Reed, Sasha C.; Weber, Bettina (Frontiers Media S.A., 2021)
      "Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are a complex community of algae, cyanobacteria, lichens, bryophytes, and assorted bacteria, fungi, archaea, and bacteriophages that colonize the soil surface. Biocrusts are particularly ...
    • What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community 

      Weber, Bettina; Belnap, Jayne; Budel, Burkhard; Antoninka, Anita J; Barger, Nichole N.; Chaudhary, Veer Bala; Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony; Eldridge, David J.; Faist, Akasha M.; Ferrenberg, Scott; Havrilla, Caroline A.; Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth; Malam Issa, Oumarou; Maestre, Fernando T; Reed, Sasha C.; Rodríguez Caballero, Emilio; Tucker, Colin; Young, Kristina E.; Zhang, Yuanming; Zhao, Yunge; Zhou, Xiaobing; Bowker, Matthew A.; (Wiley, 2022)
      "Studies of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) have proliferated over the last few decades. The biocrust literature has broadened, with more studies assessing and describing the function of a variety of biocrust communities ...