TY - GEN A1 - Veste, Maik A1 - Felde, Vincent John Martin Noah Linus A1 - Warren, Steven D. A1 - Pietrasiak, Nicole T1 - Editorial: Ecological Development and Functioning of Biological Soil Crusts After Natural and Human Disturbances T2 - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution N2 - In recent years, the importance of soil health for ecosystem functions has come further into the scientific focus (Lehmann et al., 2020). Especially after severe ecosystem disturbances, soil formation has to start anew. Such disturbances, which reset ecosystem development to the starting point, can be of natural (volcanoes, mobile sand dunes, floods, glaciers) (La Farge et al., 2013; Lan et al., 2014) or human origin (post-mining landscapes, military training areas, agricultural lands) (Belnap et al., 2007; Schaaf et al., 2011). In these young ecosystems, the interactions between the initial colonizers, the inorganic matter, and the subsequent biogeochemical processes are an important prerequisite for the development of elemental fluxes, soil genesis, and thus for further ecosystem development. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-UBICO/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27888 UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.713584/full SN - 2296-701X VL - 9 ER -