Chun-Xiang Hu

Stage-specific cyanobacterial handoffs and heterotrophic subsidies underpin biocrust carbon accumulation

It is demonstrated that biocrust carbon accumulation is sustained by temporal functional division among cyanobacterial guilds and metabolic subsidies from heterotrophic partners, rather than by the persistent activity of a single pioneer strain, and provide a trait-based roadmap for designing resilient, multifunctional...