干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Dual use of solar power plants as biocrust nurseries for large-scale arid soil restoration

Arid

DOI	10.1038/s41893-023-01106-8
	Dual use of solar power plants as biocrust nurseries for large-scale arid soil restoration
	Heredia-Velasquez, Ana Mercedes; Giraldo-Silva, Ana; Nelson, Corey; Bethany, Julie; Kut, Patrick; Gonzalez-de-Salceda, Luis; Garcia-Pichel, Ferran
通讯作者	Garcia-Pichel, F
来源期刊	NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
ISSN	2398-9629
出版年	2023
卷号	6 期号:8 页码:955-964
英文摘要	Arid soils are currently under substantial anthropogenic stress and are globally degrading. Co-operating photovoltaic plants with biocrust nurseries has potential to restore soil health alongside renewable energy production. Large portions of global arid lands are under severe, increasing anthropogenic stress, their soils progressively degrading or already degraded. The interventional regeneration of the natural cover of these soils-photosynthetic communities known as biocrusts that armour them against erosion and fertilize them-is currently regarded as promising for dryland restoration and sustainability. Technologies for biocrust restoration developed during the past decades are, however, invariably of high effort and low capacity, constraining application to small spatial scales. We tested the notion that crustivoltaics, where solar power plants are used as ad hoc biocrusts nurseries, can break this scaling barrier. We show experimentally that solar plants indeed promote the formation of biocrust over neighbouring soils, doubling biocrust biomass and tripling biocrust cover, and that after biocrust harvesting, recovery is swift particularly if re-inoculated. Our results point to a mode of continuous dual operation that is not only effective and socioeconomically attractive but can also increase capacity by orders of magnitude to reach regional scales.
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000973196800001
WOS关键词	CRUSTS ; CYANOBACTERIA ; DESERTIFICATION ; TEMPERATURE ; ERODIBILITY ; DISTURBANCE ; DIVERSITY ; RECOVERY ; PLATEAU
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/397903
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Heredia-Velasquez, Ana Mercedes,Giraldo-Silva, Ana,Nelson, Corey,et al. Dual use of solar power plants as biocrust nurseries for large-scale arid soil restoration[J],2023,6(8):955-964.
APA	Heredia-Velasquez, Ana Mercedes.,Giraldo-Silva, Ana.,Nelson, Corey.,Bethany, Julie.,Kut, Patrick.,...&Garcia-Pichel, Ferran.(2023).Dual use of solar power plants as biocrust nurseries for large-scale arid soil restoration.NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,6(8),955-964.
MLA	Heredia-Velasquez, Ana Mercedes,et al."Dual use of solar power plants as biocrust nurseries for large-scale arid soil restoration".NATURE SUSTAINABILITY 6.8(2023):955-964.