Ecology and responses to climate change of biocrust-forming mosses in drylands
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Title: | Ecology and responses to climate change of biocrust-forming mosses in drylands |
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Authors: | Ladrón de Guevara, Mónica | Maestre, Fernando T. |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ecología | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio "Ramón Margalef" |
Keywords: | Abiotic interactions | Biological soil crusts | Biotic interactions | Bryophytes | Global change | Hydrology | Microbial community | Nutrient cycles | Plant interactions | Soil properties |
Knowledge Area: | Ecología |
Issue Date: | 12-May-2022 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Citation: | Journal of Experimental Botany. 2022, 73(13): 4380-4395. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac183 |
Abstract: | The interest in understanding the role of biocrusts as ecosystem engineers in drylands has substantially increased during the last two decades. Mosses are a major biocrust component that dominate its late successional stages. In general, their impacts on most ecosystem functions are greater than those of early-stage biocrust constituents. However, it is common to find contradictory results regarding how moss interactions with different biotic and abiotic factors affect ecosystem processes. This review aims to: i) describe the adaptations and environmental constraints of biocrust-forming mosses in drylands, ii) identify their primary ecological roles in these ecosystems, and iii) synthesise their responses to climate change. Our review emphasises the importance of interactions between specific functional traits of mosses (e.g., height, radiation reflectance, morphology, shoot densities) with both the environment (e.g., climate, topography and soil properties) and other organisms to understand their ecological roles and responses to climate change. It also highlights key areas that we should research in the future to fulfil essential gaps in our understanding of the ecology and responses to ongoing climate change of biocrust-forming mosses. These include a better understanding of intra- and interspecific interactions and mechanisms driving mosses' carbon balance of during desiccation/rehydration cycles. |
Sponsor: | MLG was supported by the Andalusian Research, Development and Innovation Plan (PAIDI 2020, DOC_01041). FTM was supported by the European Research Council (ERC Grant agreement 647038 [BIODESERT]) and Generalitat Valenciana (CIDEGENT/2018/041). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/123546 |
ISSN: | 0022-0957 (Print) | 1460-2431 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1093/jxb/erac183 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac183 |
Appears in Collections: | Personal Investigador sin Adscripción a Grupo INV - DRYLAB - Artículos de Revistas Research funded by the EU |
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