Contributions of hypolithic communities to surface soil organic carbon across a hyperarid-to-arid climate gradient

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• soil surface 76%
• organic carbon 68%
• clast 60%
• climate 47%
• colonization 33%
• vascular plant 33%
• quartz 31%
• soil 31%
• rainfall 18%
• fog 16%
• cyanobacterium 13%
• desert 12%
• soil crust 9%
• climate change 8%
• bare soil 8%
• chlorophyll a 6%
• distribution 5%
• productivity 5%
• organism 5%
• biomass 4%
• carbon 4%
• loss 3%

Agriculture & Biology

• soil organic carbon 100%
• arid zones 89%
• quartz 52%
• carbon sinks 44%
• vascular plants 30%
• rain 22%
• deserts 13%
• Cyanobacteria 13%
• climate change 12%
• soil crusts 11%
• biological soil crusts 11%
• autotrophs 8%
• soil 7%
• buffers 5%
• climate 5%
• chlorophyll 5%
• plant growth 5%
• carbon 4%
• biomass 4%