Study On the Thickness of Biological Soil Crusts in Different Desertification Ecosystem Areas

DOI

10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.166How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Biological soil crusts; The thickness of biological soil crusts; Desertification ecosystem areas.

Abstract

Biological soil crusts serve as a vanguard for improving the ecological environment in arid, semi-arid desertification areas. It is a good indicator of the improvement status which the local ecological environment is undertaking. This study was completed in Yanchi in Ningxia province and Dengkou in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from 2010 to 2011. Through field investigation to study on the thickness of biological soil crusts, find characteristics of biological soil crusts thickness stage. The results show that: Biological soil crusts thickness decreases with increasing distance roots. The biological soil crusts thickness distribution is associated with the crown of plants in different directions. Comparing two kinds of desertification ecosystem, the thickness of the biological soil crust in Mu Us Desert were thicker than that in Ulan Buh Desert.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bai Li
AU  - Wei Qin
AU  - Changqing Zuo
AU  - Zhe Yin
AU  - Nan Yan
AU  - Qiankun Guo
AU  - Zhijie Shan
AU  - Zhaoyan Wang
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Study On the Thickness of Biological Soil Crusts in Different Desertification Ecosystem Areas
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 905
EP  - 913
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.166
DO  - 10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.166
ID  - Li2015/09
ER  -