| Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing … E Couradeau, A Giraldo-Silva, F De Martini, F Garcia-Pichel Microbiome 7, 1-12, 2019 | 111 | 2019 |
| Microbial nursery production of high-quality biological soil crust biomass for restoration of degraded dryland soils S Velasco Ayuso, A Giraldo Silva, C Nelson, NN Barger, F Garcia-Pichel Applied and environmental microbiology 83 (3), e02179-16, 2017 | 108 | 2017 |
| Nursing biocrusts: isolation, cultivation, and fitness test of indigenous cyanobacteria A Giraldo‐Silva, C Nelson, NN Barger, F Garcia‐Pichel Restoration Ecology 27 (4), 793-803, 2019 | 105 | 2019 |
| A symbiotic nutrient exchange within the cyanosphere microbiome of the biocrust cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus C Nelson, A Giraldo-Silva, F Garcia-Pichel The ISME Journal 15 (1), 282-292, 2021 | 68 | 2021 |
| Addressing barriers to improve biocrust colonization and establishment in dryland restoration A Antoninka, MA Bowker, NN Barger, J Belnap, A Giraldo‐Silva, SC Reed, ... Restoration Ecology 28, S150-S159, 2020 | 56 | 2020 |
| Inoculation and habitat amelioration efforts in biological soil crust recovery vary by desert and soil texture AM Faist, AJ Antoninka, J Belnap, MA Bowker, MC Duniway, ... Restoration Ecology 28, S96-S105, 2020 | 50 | 2020 |
| Genomics, biology and phylogeny Aurantiochytrium acetophilum sp. nov.(Thraustrochytriaceae), including first evidence of sexual reproduction E Ganuza, S Yang, M Amezquita, A Giraldo-Silva, RA Andersen Protist 170 (2), 209-232, 2019 | 46 | 2019 |
| Optimizing the production of nursery-based biological soil crusts for restoration of arid land soils J Bethany, A Giraldo-Silva, C Nelson, NN Barger, F Garcia-Pichel Applied and environmental microbiology 85 (15), e00735-19, 2019 | 45 | 2019 |
| Differential responses of dinitrogen fixation, diazotrophic cyanobacteria and ammonia oxidation reveal a potential warming-induced imbalance of the N-cycle in biological soil … X Zhou, H Smith, A Giraldo Silva, J Belnap, F Garcia-Pichel PloS one 11 (10), e0164932, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| Effect of preconditioning to the soil environment on the performance of 20 cyanobacterial strains used as inoculum for biocrust restoration A Giraldo‐Silva, C Nelson, C Penfold, NN Barger, F Garcia‐Pichel Restoration Ecology 28, S187-S193, 2020 | 38 | 2020 |
| Coleofasciculaceae, a Monophyletic Home for the Microcoleus steenstrupii Complex and Other Desiccation‐tolerant Filamentous Cyanobacteria V Moreira C. Fernandes, A Giraldo‐Silva, D Roush, F Garcia‐Pichel Journal of Phycology 57 (5), 1563-1579, 2021 | 33 | 2021 |
| Cydrasil 3, a curated 16S rRNA gene reference package and web app for cyanobacterial phylogenetic placement D Roush, A Giraldo-Silva, F Garcia-Pichel Scientific Data 8 (1), 230, 2021 | 33 | 2021 |
| Niche Partitioning with Temperature among Heterocystous Cyanobacteria (Scytonema spp., Nostoc spp., and Tolypothrix spp.) from Biological Soil Crusts A Giraldo-Silva, VMC Fernandes, J Bethany, F Garcia-Pichel Microorganisms 8 (3), 396, 2020 | 32 | 2020 |
| Microbial inoculum production for biocrust restoration: testing the effects of a common substrate versus native soils on yield and community composition SV Ayuso, A Giraldo‐Silva, NN Barger, F Garcia‐Pichel Restoration Ecology 28, S194-S202, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Dual use of solar power plants as biocrust nurseries for large-scale arid soil restoration AM Heredia-Velásquez, A Giraldo-Silva, C Nelson, J Bethany, P Kut, ... Nature Sustainability 6 (8), 955-964, 2023 | 18 | 2023 |
| A fog-irrigated soil substrate system unifies and optimizes cyanobacterial biocrust inoculum production C Nelson, A Giraldo-Silva, F Garcia-Pichel Applied and environmental microbiology 86 (13), e00624-20, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Cydrasil: A comprehensive phylogenetic tree of cyanobacterial 16s rRNA gene sequences D Roush, A Giraldo-Silva, VMC Fernandes, N Maria Machado de Lima, ... | 11 | 2016 |
| Spatial self-segregation of pioneer cyanobacterial species drives microbiome organization in biocrusts C Nelson, A Giraldo-Silva, FW Thomas, F Garcia-Pichel ISME communications 2 (1), 114, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
| Biological soil crusts as modern analogs for the Archean continental biosphere: Insights from carbon and nitrogen isotopes C Thomazo, E Couradeau, A Giraldo-Silva, J Marin-Carbonne, A Brayard, ... Astrobiology 20 (7), 815-819, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Accurate microbiome sequencing with synthetic long read sequencing N Chung, MW Van Goethem, MA Preston, F Lhota, L Cerna, ... bioRxiv, 2020.10. 02.324038, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
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