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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Microbial Mats
    sub title: Modern and Ancient Microorganisms in Stratified Systems
  name:
    name part: Seckbach, Joseph.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Oren, Aharon.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVI, 606 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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: The Nature of Microbial Mats -- What are Microbial Mats? -- Paper from Outer Space – on “Meteorpapier” and Microbial Mats -- Microbial Mats in The Geological Record -- Microbial Mats on the Early Earth: The Archean Rock Record -- Gunflint Chert Microbiota Revisited – Neither Stromatolites, Nor Cyanobacteria -- Paleoenvironmental Context of Microbial Mat-Related Structures in Siliciclastic Rocks -- Microbially Related Structures in Siliciclastic Sediment Resembling Ediacaran Fossils: Examples from India, Ancient and Modern -- Osmotrophic Biofilms: From Modern to Ancient -- Microbial Mats as a Source of Biosignatures -- Molecular Investigations and Experimental Manipulations of Microbial Mats: A View to Paleomicrobial Ecosystems -- Architecture of Archaeal-Dominated Microbial Mats from Cold Seeps in the Black Sea (Dnjepr Canyon, Lower Crimean Shelf) -- Marine, Freshwater, and Soil Biofilms -- Biodynamics of Modern Marine Stromatolites -- Entophysalis Mats as Environmental Regulators -- Diversity and Role of Cyanobacteria and Aerobic Heterotrophic Microorganisms in Carbon Cycling in Arid Cyanobacterial Mats -- Ooid Accreting Diatom Communities from the Modern Marine Stromatolites at Highborne Cay, Bahamas -- Exopolymers (Extracellular Polymeric Substances) in Diatom-Dominated Marine Sediment Biofilms -- Microbial Mats from Wind Flats of the Southern Baltic Sea -- Diazotrophic Microbial Mats -- Architectures of Biocomplexity: Lichen-Dominated Soil Crusts and Mats -- Iron and Bacterial Biofilm Development -- Microbial Mats in Extreme Environments -- Mats of Filamentous and Unicellular Cyanobacteria in Hypersaline Environments -- Marine Hypersaline Microcoleus-Dominated Cyanobacterial Mats in the Saltern at Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico: A System-Level Perspective -- Environmental Dynamics, Community Structure and Function in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat -- Biogeochemistry of Carbon Cycling in Hypersaline Mats: Linking the Present to the Past through Biosigna…
  note: edited by Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Microbial ecology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Microbial Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  classification: QR1-502
  classification: 579
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
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  identifier: 9789048137992
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3799-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 100716
    record change date: 20151204173616.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-3799-2