Microbial mats : modern and ancient microorganisms in stratified systems
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Microbial mats : modern and ancient microorganisms in stratified systems
（Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats and astrobiology, v. 14）
Springer, c2010
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This book provides information about microbial mats, from early fossils to modern mats located in marine and terrestrial environments. Microbial mats - layered biofilms containing different types of cells - are most complex systems in which representatives of various groups of organisms are found together. Among them are cyanobacteria and eukaryotic phototrophs, aerobic heterotrophic and chemoautotrophic bacteria, protozoa, anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, and other types of microorganisms.
These mats are perfect models for biogeochemical processes, such as the cycles of chemical elements, in which a variety of microorganisms cooperate and interact in complex ways. They are often found under extreme conditions and their study contributes to our understanding of extremophilic life. Moreover, microbial mats are models for Precambrian stromatolites; the study of modern microbial mats may provide information on the processes that may have occurred on Earth when prokaryotic life began to spread.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Microbial Mats Matter as Marvelous Manifestations of Life, J.T. Staley
Preface, J. Seckbach and A. Oren
List of Authors and their Addresses
PART 1: THE NATURE OF MICROBIAL MATS
What are microbial mats? G. Gerdes
Paper from Outer Space - On 'Meteorpapier' and Microbial Mats, A.Oren
PART 2: MICROBIAL MATS IN THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD
Microbial Mats on the Early Earth: The Archean Rock Record, M.M. Walsh
Gunflint Chert Microbiota Revisited - Neither Stromatolites, nor Cyanobacteria, W.E. Krumbein
Paleoenvironmental Context of Microbial Mat-Related Structures in Siliciclastic Rocks - Examples from the Proterozoic of India and South Africa, P.G. Eriksson et al
Microbially Related Structures in Siliciclastic Sediment Resembling Ediacaran Fossils: Examples from India, Ancient and Modern, S.Banerjee et al
Osmotrophic Biofilms: From Modern to Ancient, M.D. Brasier et al
Microbial Mats as a Source of Biosignatures, E. Chacon
Molecular Investigations and Experimental Manipulations of Microbial Mats: A View to Paleo-Microbial Ecosystems, S.J. Green and L.L. Jahnke
Architecture of Archaeal-Dominated Microbial Mats from Cold Seeps in the Black Sea (Dnjepr Canyon, Lower Crimean Shelf), J. Reitner
PART 3: MARINE, FRESHWATER, AND SOIL BIOFILMS
Biodynamics of Modern Marine Stromatolites, D.M. Paterson et al
Entophysalis Mats as Environmental Regulators, S. Golubic and R.M.M. Abed
Diversity and Role of Cyanobacteria and Aerobic Heterotrophic Microorganisms in Carbon Cycling in Arid Cyanobacterial Mats,R.M.M. Abed et al
Ooid Accreting Diatom Communities from the Modern Marine Stromatolites at Highborne Cay, Bahamas, J. Franks et al
Exopolymers (Extracellular Polymeric Substances) in Diatom - Dominated Marine Sediment Biofilms, G.J.C. Underwood
Microbial Mats from Wind Flats of the Southern Baltic Sea, K. Heyl et al
Diazotrophic Microbial Mats, I. Severin and L.J. Stal
Architectures of Biocomplexity: Lichen-Dominated Soil Crusts and Mats, M. Grube et al
Iron and Bacterial Biofilm Development, O. Avidan et al
PART 4 : MICROBIAL MATS IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
Mats of Filamentous and Unicellular Cyanobacteria in Hypersaline Environments, A. Oren
Marine Hypersaline Microcoleus-Dominated Cyanobacterial Mats in the Saltern at Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico. A System-Level Perspective, D.J. Des Marais
Environmental Dynamics, Community Structure and Function in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat, H.W. Paerl and A.C. Yanarell
Biogeochemistry of Carbon Cycling in Hypersaline Mats: Linking the Present to the Past through Biosignatures, P.T. Visscher et al
Phototrophic Biofilms from Rio Tinto, an Extreme Acidic Environment, the Prokaryotic Component, A. Aguilera et al
Fluvial Bedform Generation by Biofilm Activity in the Berrocal Segment of Rio Tinto. Acidic Biofilms and Sedimentation, D.C. Fernandez-Remolar et al
Cyanobacterial Mats of the Meltwater Ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf (Antarctica), A.D. Jungblut and B.A. Neilan
Diversity and Ecology of Cyanobacterial Microflora of Antarctic Seepage Habitats. Comparison of King George Island, Shetland Islands, and
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