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Tiny plants crucial for sustaining dwindling water supplies – Phys.org
A global meta-analysis led by UNSW scientists shows tiny organisms that cover desert soils—so-called biocrusts—are critically important for supporting the world’s shrinking water supplies.
A global meta-analysis led by UNSW scientists shows tiny organisms that cover desert soilsso-called biocrustsare critically important for supporting the world’s shrinking water supplies.
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 and carbon, st…
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