Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 January 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01249-6
Land degradation in drylands impacts livelihoods and productivity and is affected by biocrusts that stabilize the soil. Long-term experiments show that biocrust recovery from disturbance is faster than expected, but stopped under warming, with warming alone causing loss of biocrust groups and soil stability.
