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Microbiotic Soil Crusts
Three types of crusts form on the soil surface: biological, chemical and physical. Biological crusts are known by many different names including biocrusts and cryptobiotic, microbiotic, cryptogamic or microphytic crusts. I use the term microbiotic crusts. These biological crusts contain … Continue reading
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