{"id":22,"date":"2018-08-07T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vendor.hub.wp.nau.edu\/biocrust3\/welcome\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:18:20","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/biocrust3\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Welcome<\/h1>\n<h4>Third\u00a0International Workshop on Biological Soil Crusts<\/h4>\n<h4>September 26-30, 2016 &#8211; Moab, Utah, USA<\/h4>\n<p>The Third\u00a0International Workshop on Biological Soil Crusts (BIOCRUST 3) will bring together international scientists working in disciplines such as physiology; taxonomy and systematics; genetics and genomics; restoration; and population, community, ecosystem and landscape ecology. Within BIOCRUST 3, these different fields are unified by their common interest in biological soil crusts, or biocrusts, as a study system. Biocrusts are like a living skin of the Earth, composed of many distinct organisms regulating ecosystem processes in modern ecosystems, and serving as a modern analog for some of the earliest ecological communities on land.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will cover the following biocrust topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mapping, monitoring, and management<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Structure and function in ecosystems<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Diversity, ecology, and biogeography<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Taxonomy and physiology of biocrust constituents<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Assessment methods<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Disturbance and restoration<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Interaction with vascular plant vegetation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Effects of global environmental change<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the number of researchers in the field steadily increases and becomes increasingly international, <strong>the\u00a0goal of BIOCRUST 3 is to provide the definitive forum for the productive exchange of ideas and the forging of new collaborations in biocrust research.<\/strong>\u00a0Conference organizers particularly wish to facilitate attendance by researchers from developing nations and students.<\/p>\n<p><!--script class=\"ektron-script\"&gt; if ($(\".catalog_script_placeholder\")[0]) { var scriptsLoaded = 0; $.getScript( \"\/\/catalog.nau.edu\/Catalog\/resources\/js\/jquery.catalogFrames.js\").done(function() { $.getScript( \"\/\/catalog.nau.edu\/Catalog\/resources\/js\/easyXDM.min.js\").done(function() { var placeholder = $(\".catalog_script_placeholder\"); var divId = placeholder.attr('divId'); var Program = placeholder.attr('Program'); var catalogFrameDisplayData = {}; catalogFrameDisplayData[placeholder.attr('DisplayType')] = true; var catalogFrameData = {}; catalogFrameData[\"display\"] = catalogFrameDisplayData; catalogFrameData[\"url\"] = \"https:\/\/catalog.nau.edu\"; catalogFrameData[\"plan\"] = Program; $(function setupCatalogWidget() { $(\"#\" + divId).catalogFrames(catalogFrameData); console.log(catalogFrameData); }); }); }); } &lt;\/script--><!-- shortcode-right-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-right-column\" >\n    <div class=\"shortcode-right-column__container\"><!-- shortcode-block -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-block\">\n      <div class=\"block-header\">\n        <h3>What's New<\/h3>\n    <\/div>\n          <div class=\"block-body\">\n      <div><div>\n<p><strong>Program and abstracts now available!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt;<a title=\"Web version of print program\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2018\/08\/Biocrust-Conference-Program-Web_10_27_16-ek.pdf\">Web version of print program<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt;<a title=\"Abstract Book\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2018\/08\/Compiled-BioCrust3-abstracts_Oct-27-ek.pdf\">Abstract Book<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<!-- shortcode-block -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-block\">\n      <div class=\"block-header\">\n        <h3>Donate Now<\/h3>\n    <\/div>\n          <div class=\"block-body\">\n      <div><div>\n<p>We need your help! 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