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Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ID: T12832

Current Trend

+15%

vs baseline

98

works this month

85

baseline/mo

Monthly Publications

Monthly Trend History

Annual Publications

Most-Cited Papers (Past 12 Months)

Resilience and Adaptation in Desert Ecosystems: Unveiling Microbial Legacies and Plant Functional Trait Coordination Under Climate Change

Waqar Islam et al. · Global Change Biology · 2026-01-01 · 20 citations

Soil macropore structure plays divergent roles in fresh and decomposed particulate organic matter

Tianyu Ding et al. · Communications Earth & Environment · 2025-08-08 · 14 citations

Human-induced biospheric carbon sink: Impact from the Taklamakan Afforestation Project

Salma Noor et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026-01-20 · 12 citations

Refining Amino Sugar‐Based Conversion Factors for Quantification of Microbial Necromass Carbon in Soils

Di Meng et al. · Global Change Biology · 2025-08-01 · 12 citations

Systems acclimation to osmotic stress in zygnematophyte cells

Jaccoline M. S. Zegers et al. · Nature Communications · 2026-01-16 · 10 citations

Rising Papers (High Citation Velocity)

Bioremediation of lunar regolith simulant through mycorrhizal fungi and plant symbioses enables chickpea to seed

Jessica Atkin et al. · Scientific Reports · 2026-03-05 · 5 citations · FWCI 57.6

Chemodiverse cell system responses to UV in an algal sister of land plants

Cäcilia F. Kunz et al. · Current Biology · 2026-05-01 · 3 citations · FWCI 36.6

Biocrusts enhance nitrogen fixation and mineralization, increasing soil nitrogen availability and uptake by dryland shrubs

Dexun Qiu et al. · Applied Soil Ecology · 2026-03-02 · 3 citations · FWCI 36.6

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Linking moss structural and functional traits to soil water fluxes and soil erosion

Corinna Gall et al. · AoB Plants · 2026-02-17 · 2 citations