Cities’ cryptobiotica: Part 2, don’t bust
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s post explored cryptobiotica, the small small-moving life to be found in the soils of America’s southwestern deserts, which I likened to slums in its ability to form a spontaneous community and to stabilize neighborhoods. As the U. S. Geological Survey phrased the ecology:
Cryptobiotic Soils: Holding the Place in Place
Cryptobiotic soil [...]
