Sentences with phrase «biological soil»

Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts

Jason spoke on new population genomics work on Candida and Fusarium, while Sawyer presented a poster on Rhizopus stolonifer resequencing and population genomics; Derreck presented a poster on Bacteria - Fungi interactions on Serratia and zygomycete fungi; Nat presented his poster on data from first environmental sequencing of desert biological soil crusts from Joshua Tree National Park.

FDA proposes to set standards associated with identified routes of microbial contamination of produce, including agricultural water, biological soil amendments of animal origin, health and hygiene, animals in the growing area, equipment, tools, buildings and sprouts.

In a paper published January 2, 2018, in Nature Communications, Berkeley Lab researchers led by the Northen lab report that specific compounds are transformed by and strongly associated with specific bacteria in native biological soil crust (biocrust) using a suite of tools Northen calls «exometabolomics.»

You must use a microscope to spot the new helpers that can assist in biological soil clean - up (bioremediation).

As Wired points out, «The researchers also found that so - called biological soil crusts, a little - studied layer of lichen and bacteria found in arid western regions, play a surprisingly large role in preventing erosion.

A team of Berkeley Lab researchers has performed molecular level analysis of desert biological soil crusts — living ground cover formed by microbial communities — to reveal how long - dormant cyanobacteria become activated by rainfall then resume dormancy when the precipitation stops.

Biological soil crusts form in open desert areas from a highly specialized community of cyanobacteria, mosses, and lichens that cover up to 70 percent of open spaces.

These biological soil crusts, or biocrusts, can exist for extended periods in a desiccated, dormant state.

Biological soil crusts, or biocrusts, are crammed with communities of tiny photosynthetic organisms and other life - forms.

Weber, B., D. Wu, A. Tamm, N. Ruckteschler, E. Rodriguez - Caballero, J. Steinkamp, H. Meusel, W. Elbert, T. Behrendt, M. Sörgel, Y. Cheng, P. J. Crutzen, H. Su and U. Pöschl: Biological soil crusts accelerate the nitrogen cycle through large NO and HONO emissions in drylands, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, 15384 - 15389, 2015.

Plant, root, and soil microbiome Photoautotrophic organisms control microbial abundance, diversity, and physiology in different types of biological soil crusts.

This sounds like the tagline for a science fiction movie, but it describes the amazing life - cycles of microbial organisms that form the biological soil crusts (BSCs) of Earth's deserts.