Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology

Model systems have had a profound influence on the development of ecological theory and general principles. Compared to alternatives, the most effective models share some combination of the following characteristics: simpler, smaller, faster, general, idiosyncratic or manipulable. We argue that biol...

• Main Author: Castillo Monroy, A. (author)
• Format: article
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: biodiversity; biological soil crusts; ecosystem function; global change; landscape heterogeneity; micro; landscape; model system; species interactions
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0658-x; http://dspace.utpl.edu.ec/handle/123456789/19144