Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez et al. experimentally manipulate rainfall and temperature in a Mediterranean dryland to explore the association of biocrusts with essential metallic nutrients. They find that biocrusts—communities of lichens, bryophytes and cyanobacteria on the soil surface—can buffer against the effects of warming and reduced rainfall on metallic nutrient availability.
- Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez
- Raúl Ochoa-Hueso
- Fernando T. Maestre
