Microbial mats
Subtitle: modern and ancient microorganisms in stratified systems
By: edited by Joseph Seckbach and Aharon Oren
Series: Cellular origin, life in extreme habitats and astrobiology -- 14; Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats and astrobiology -- v. 14.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9789048137985; 9789048137992
Subjects: Origin; Life; Microbiological Phenomena; Microbial mats; Cyanobacteria; Biofilms; Micropaleontology; Stromatolites; Extreme environments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: What are microbial mats? / G. Gerdes; title: Paper from outer space; title: on "meteorpapier" and microbial mats / A. Oren; title: Microbial mats on the early earth : the Archean rock record / M.M. Walsh; title: Gunflint chert microbiota revisited; title: neither stromatolites, nor cyanobacteria / W.E. Krumbein; title: Paleoenvironmental context of microbial mat-related structures in siliciclastic rocks / P.G. Eriksson et al.; title: Microbially related structures in siliciclastic sediment resembling Ediacaran fossils : examples from India, ancient and modern / S. Banerjee et al.; title: Osmotrophic biofilms : from modern to ancient / M.D. Brasier et al.; title: Microbial mats as a source of biosignatures / E. Chacón; title: Molecular investigations and experimental manipulations of microbial mats : a view to paleomicrobial ecosystems / S.J. Green and L.L. Jahnke; title: Architecture of archaeal-dominated microbial mats from cold seeps in the Black Sea (Dnjepr Canyon, lower Crimean shelf) / J. Reitner; title: Biodynamics of modern marine stromatolites / D.M. Paterson et al.; title: Entophysalis mats as environmental regulators / S. Gotubic and R.M.M. Abed; title: Diversity and role of cyanobacteria and aerobic heterotrophic microorganisms in carbon cycling in arid cyanobacterial mats / R.M.M. Abed et al.; title: Ooid accreting diatom communities from the modern marine stromatolites at Highborne Cay, Bahamas / J. Franks et al.; title: Exopolymers (extracellular polymeric substances) in diatom-dominated marine sediment biofilms / G.J.C. Underwood; title: Microbial mats from wind flats of the southern Baltic Sea / K. Heyl et al.; title: Diazotrophic microbial mats / I. Severin and L.J. Stal; title: Architectures of biocomplexity : lichen-dominated soil crusts and mats / M. Grube et al.; title: Iron and bacterial biofilm development / O. Avidan et al; title: Mats of filamentous and unicellular cyanobacteria in hypersaline environments / A. Oren; title: Marine hypersaline Microcoleus-dominated cyanobacterial mats in the saltern at Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico : a system-level perspective / D.J. Des Marais; title: Environmental dynamics, community structure and function in a hypersaline microbial mat / H.W. Paerl and A.C. Yannarell; title: Biogeochemistry of carbon cycling in hypersaline mats : linking the present to the past through biosignatures / P.T. Visscher et al.; title: Phototrophic biofilms from Río Tinto, an extreme acidic environment, the prokaryotic component / A. Aguilera et al.; title: Fluvial bedform generation by biofilm activity in the Berrocal segment of Río Tinto : acidic biofilms and sedimentation / D.C. Fernández-Remolar et al.; title: Cyanobacterial mats of the meltwater ponds on the McMurdo ice shelf (Antarctica) / A.D. Jungblut and B.A. Neilan; title: Diversity and ecology of cyanobacterial microflora of Antarctic seepage habitats : comparison of King George Island, Shetland Islands, and James Ross Island, NW Weddell Sea, Antarctica / O. Komárek and J. Komárek; title: Microbial mats in Antarctica as models for the search of life on the Jovian moon Europa / S. Dudeja et al.; title: Past, present, and future : microbial mats as models for astrobiological research / J.S. Foster and J.M. Mobberley.