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Biological soil crusts are living communities of cyanobacteria, lichens, fungi, mosses and algae that bind dryland soil and influence water and nutrient cycles.

Do not step on the living skin

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Why it matters

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What looks like bare earth can be a slow-built alliance only millimetres high. Cyanobacterial filaments and other organisms stabilize particles, alter infiltration and help make nutrients available. A single footprint or tyre can undo years of construction, making the crust a lesson in ecological scale: the smallest architecture may be holding the whole surface together.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Biyolojik toprak kabukları kurak alan toprağını bağlayan, su ve besin döngülerini etkileyen siyanobakteri, liken, mantar, yosun ve alg topluluklarıdır.
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Çıplak toprak gibi görünen yüzey, yalnızca birkaç milimetre yüksekliğinde ve yavaş kurulmuş bir ortaklık olabilir. Siyanobakteri iplikçikleri ile diğer canlılar parçacıkları sabitler, suyun toprağa girişini değiştirir ve besinleri erişilebilir kılar. Tek bir ayak izi ya da lastik geçişi yılların emeğini bozabilir; en küçük mimarinin bütün yüzeyi bir arada tutabileceğini gösterir.

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