The influence of climatic legacies on the distribution of dryland biocrust communities

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 327 - 336
• Main Authors: Eldridge, David J., Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Abundance; Air temperature; Aquatic plants; arid lands; Arid zones; Atmospheric precipitations; Australia; Bisgaard taxa; Bryaceae; Bryophyta; bryophyte; Cladoniaceae; climate; Climate change; Clusters; Distribution; drylands; ecological clusters; Empirical analysis; Environmental changes; global change; Grazing intensity; Herbivores; Land use; Lecideaceae; lichen; Lichens; liverwort; Marchantiophyta; Mathematical models; Modelling; Mosses; mosses and liverworts; Peltulaceae; pH effects; Pottiaceae; Precipitation; prediction; Predictions; Rain; Rainfall; Relative abundance; Soil; soil carbon; Soil chemistry; soil crust; Soil pH; Soil surfaces; Soil temperature; Soils; Species; structural equation modeling; Surface temperature; Teloschistaceae; Temperature; Temperature effects; Thelotremataceae; Australia; drylands; liverwort; lichen; bryophyte; soil crust; ecological clusters

Predicting the distribution of biocrust species, mosses, lichens and liverworts associated with surface soils is difficult, but climatic legacies (changes in climate over the last 20 k years) can improve our prediction of the distribution of biocrust species. To provide empirical support for this hy...