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Blackbrush and a prickly pear cactus growing on crytobiotic or cryptogamic soil, a living soil crust, in the desert near Moab, Utah.
Blackbrush and a prickly pear cactus growing on crytobiotic or cryptogamic soil, a living soil crust, in the desert near Moab, Utah.
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Cryptobiotic Soils
  • American West
  • Blackbrush - Coleogyne ramosissima
  • Colorado Plateau
  • Jon Fuller Photography/NaturePhoto
  • Moab
  • North America
  • Prickly Pear Cactus - Opuntia species
  • Rights Managed
  • United States
  • USA
  • U.S.
  • Utah
  • biocrust
  • biological soil crust
  • color
  • colour
  • copyright Jon G. Fuller Jr
  • cryptogamic soil
  • crytobiotic soil
  • desert
  • ecosystem
  • fragile
  • living crust
  • microbiotic
  • microorganisms
  • microphytic
  • natural world
  • nature
  • no people
  • outdoors
  • outside
  • sandstone
  • stock image
  • stock photography
  • vertical format