Screenshot from an interview on the Nature Connects program with Dr. Sasha Reed about biocrusts

Screenshot from a video interview on The Nature Conservancy's Nature Connects program with Dr. Sasha Reed about biocrusts. Summary: "In this Nature Connects webinar, we hear from Dr. Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey biogeochemist. Sasha talks about the importance of biocrust – the craggy, often dark or burnt-looking carpet stretching between shrubs and grasses in arid lands. It’s actually the desert’s skin—a community of lichens, mosses, and cyanobacteria that live on the soil surface of drylands. This complex community plays an astonishingly important role in sustaining the entire desert ecosystem, and also in protecting human health. Sasha talks about how she and the USGS, along with The Nature Conservancy, Northern Arizona University (NAU), and Rim to Rim Restoration, are attempting the world’s largest-scale cultivation of whole biocrust communities." The video is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxs5t090jRk