Rising Temperatures Render Biocrusts' Fates Uncertain (4 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Rising Temperatures Render Biocrusts' Fates Uncertain (4 of 4)

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This image shows a photographic guide on how to find cryptic filamentous cyanobacteria inhabiting soil crust in arid lands. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 28, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Ferran Garcia-Pichel at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, and colleagues was titled, "Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities."

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