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| Alphabetical | By Popularity | | - Biological Soil Crusts
 - Beginner's overview to the biology, ecology, and physiology of soil crusts around the world from the USGS. - Biotic Crust Project: Microscopic Wonder of the Desert
- Taxonomic survey of organisms that comprise desert crust communities in western North America.
- Capitol Reef: Cryptobiotic Soil
- Describes the living soil crusts that are dominated by cyanobacteria, and also include soil lichens, mosses, green algae, microfungi, and bacteria.
- Cryptobiotic Crust in the Sonoran Desert
- Communities of cyanobacteria, green algae, lichens, mosses, liverworts, and microorganisms that colonize the surface of bare soil.
- Cryptobiotic Soil Crusts
- Found in dry places all over the world, they are a delicate living mat made up of cyanobacteria, lichens, mosses, algae, and microfungi.
- Cryptobiotic Soils: Holding the Place in Place
- Looks at the important ecological role that cryptobiotic soil crusts play in the arid Southwest.
- Desert Varnish and Lichen Crust
- Examines the natural, colourful coatings upon desert and seaside stones caused by colonies of bacteria and lichens.
- Microbial World: Cyanobacteria
- Provides an introduction to the cryptobiotic crusts of the American West.
- Microbiotic Crusts: A Review
(PDF) - Survey of published microbiotic crust research.
- Microbiotic Crusts: Ecological Roles and Implications for Rangeland Management in the Interior Coulumbia Basin and Portions of the Klamath and Great Basin
(PDF) - BLM draft paper.
- Microbiotic Soil Crusts in Sagebrush Habitats of Southern Idaho
(PDF) - Identifying the species associated with microbiotic soil crusts in sagebrush habitat types and determine the ecological roles filled by the individual taxa and the crusts as a whole.
- Overview of Cryptobiotic Soils in the American Southwest
(PDF) - Looks at the roles of algae, lichens, and mosses in the soils' make up.
- Spirirestis rafaelensis gen. et sp. nov. (Cyanophyceae), A New Cyanobacterial Genus from Arid Soils
- Paper reports the morphological and molecular studies of the taxon discovered in the semi-arid Utah juniper community.
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