Biocrust recovery improves soil fertility after 10-year sand-fixation using reed checkerboard barriers on reshaped dunes in an arid sandy desert in central Asia

Biological soil crusts (BSCs; biocrusts) are well developed in drylands, which are crucial to the stability and resilience of dryland ecosystems. In the southeastern Gurbantunggut Desert, a typical sandy desert in the middle part of central Asia, engineering development has an increasing negative im...

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Main Authors: Yue Zhang, Qi-Wei Li, Wei-Wei Zhuang, Ye Tao, Xiao-Bing Zhou, Yuan-Ming Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-09-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989425002355
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