Links:

• Biological Soil Crusts - http://www.soilcrust.org/

• Biotic Crust Project - http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/bcp/index.php

• Commentary on Biological Soil Crusts - http://www.biodiversityassociates.org/greatdivide/states_soil.html

• Cryptobiotic Crusts -http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/~desert/cryptos/cryptos.html

• Cryptobiotic Crusts in the Sonoran Desert - http://www.mineralarts.com/artwork/cryptos.html

• Cryptobiotic Soils: Holding the Place in Place - http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/biology/crypto/

• Phylogenetic and Morphological Diversity of Cyanobacteria in Desert Soil Crusts - http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/full/67/4/1902

• Garcia-Pichel Lab - http://www.public.asu.edu/~ferran

• Introduction to Microbiotic Soil Crusts - http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/files/MicrobCr.pdf

• Jayne Belnap - http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/about/contact/bio/belnap_jayne.aspx?id=211

• Microbiotic Crusts - http://www.jcu.edu/mcp/

• The Microbial World: Cyanobacteria - http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/jdeacon/microbes/cyano.htm

• USGS Spectroscopy Lab: Cryptobiotic Soils - http://speclab.cr.usgs.gov/national.parks/Arches.Canyonlands/cryptobiotic.soils.html

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