AUTHOR=Lan Shubin , Elliott David R. , Chamizo Sonia , Felde Vincent J. M. N. L. , Thomas Andrew D. TITLE=Editorial: Biological soil crusts: spatio-temporal development and ecological functions of soil surface microbial communities across different scales JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=15 YEAR=2024 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1447058 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2024.1447058 ISSN=1664-302X