cryptogamic crusts

Belnap, J. and J.S. Gardner. 1993. Soil microstructure in soils of the Colorado Plateau: The role of the cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus. Great Basin Naturalist. 53(1):40-47.

• Colorado Plateau
• cryptogamic crusts
• cyanobacteria

Evans, R.D. and J. Belnap. 1999. Long-term consequences of disturbance on nitrogen dynamics in an arid ecosystem. Ecology. 80(1):150-160.

• Colorado Plateau
• cryptogamic crusts
• microbiotic crusts

Belnap, J. 1996. Impact of soil surface disturbance on cyanobacterial-lichen soil crusts in deserts of the southwest United States. Desert Tortoise Council Newsletter, p. 42-43.

• Chihuahuan desert
• Colorado Plateau
• cryptogamic crusts