| We were warned by park rangers and the guidebooks not to stray from the road lest we upset the delicate cryptobiotic soil that is the building block of life in the desert. |
| In this cryptobiotic state, lichens can survive wider extremes of temperature, radiation and drought in the harsh environments they often inhabit. |
| This showed us that they had been preserved in a cryptobiotic state. |
| The organisms that make up the crust are cryptobiotic, meaning that their metabolism shuts down when it's dry. |
| The ground is alive and held together by a cryptobiotic crust, a thin tangle of lichens, bacteria, mosses and other components. |
| A common feature of cryptobiotic processes is the production of large amounts of saccharides triggered by the detection of stressful conditions. |
