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Tiny Plants Are Crucial For Sustaining Dwindling Water Supplies – Eurasia Review
Tiny organisms that cover desert soils – so-called biocrusts – are critically important for supporting the world’s shrinking water supplies, according to
Tiny organisms that cover desert soils – so-called biocrusts – are critically important for supporting the world’s shrinking water supplies, according to a global meta-analysis led by UNSW scientists.
Biocrusts are a rich assortment of mosses, lichens, cyanobacteria, and microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi that live on the surface of dryland soils. Drylands, collectively, are the world’s largest biome.
“Biocrusts are critically important because they fix large amounts of nitrogen …
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