• 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 ...
    • Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: a meta-analysis 

      Havrilla, Caroline A.; Chaudhary, Veer Bala; Ferrenberg, Scott; Antoninka, Anita J.; Belnap, Jayne; Bowker, Matthew A.; Eldridge, David J.; Faist, Akasha M.; Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth; Leslie, Alexander D.; Rodríguez Caballero, Emilio; Zhang, Yuanming; Barger, Nichole N. (Wiley, 2019)
      "Understanding the importance of biotic interactions in driving the distribution and abundance of species is a central goal of plant ecology. Early vascular plants likely colonized land occupied by biocrusts - photoautotrophic, ...