Microbial Mats

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Microbial mat research: The recent past and new perspectives
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   Chapter 2 Microbial mats in coastal environments
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   Chapter 3 Species diversity in hot spring microbial mats as revealed by both molecular and enrichment culture approaches — relationship between biodiversity and community structure
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   Chapter 4 Microbial mats in a thermomineral sulfurous cave
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   Chapter 5 Establishment of phototrophic purple sulphur bacteria in microbial mat systems
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   Chapter 6 Biological versus inorganic processes in stromatolite morphogenesis: Observations from mineralizing sedimentary systems
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   Chapter 7 Morphological and chemical transformations of Microcoleus chthonoplastes during early diagenesis in hypersaline microbial mats
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   Chapter 8 On the significance of solar ultraviolet radiation for the ecology of microbial mats
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    Chapter 9 Environmental factors controlling the development of microbial mats in inland saline lakes; the granulometric composition of the sediment
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    Chapter 10 Structure of the sediment at depositional saline environments
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    Chapter 11 Microbiological mediation of sediment structure and behaviour
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    Chapter 12 Field and cultivated Microcoleus chthonoplastes : The search for clues to its prevalence in marine microbial mats
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    Chapter 13 The sensitivity for salinity increase in the drought resistant cyanobacterium Crinalium epipsammum SAB 22.89
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    Chapter 14 Osmotic adaptation of microbial communities in hypersaline microbial mats
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    Chapter 15 Analysis of microbial mats by use of electrochemical microsensors: Recent advances
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    Chapter 16 Optical properties of microbial mats: Light measurements with fiber-optic microprobes
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    Chapter 17 Gas diffusion probe for measurement of CH 4 gradients
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    Chapter 18 Light and electron microscopy in microbial mat research: An overview
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    Chapter 19 Motility of Microcoleus chthonoplastes subjected to different light intensities quantified by digital image analysis
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    Chapter 20 Application of molecular genetics to the study of microbial communities
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    Chapter 21 Determination of the genetic diversity of microbial communities using DGGE analysis of PCR-amplified 16S rDNA
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    Chapter 22 Exopolymers in microbial mats: Assessing their adaptive roles
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    Chapter 23 The challenge to analyse extracellular polymers in biofilms
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    Chapter 24 New cultivation techniques and laboratory model systems for investigating the growth of stratified microbial communities
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    Chapter 25 Diffusion processes and boundary layers in microbial mats
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    Chapter 26 Cycling of carbon, sulfur, oxygen and nutrients in a microbial mat
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    Chapter 27 Nitrogen cycling in microbial mat communities: The quantitative importance of N-fixation and other sources of N for primary productivity
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    Chapter 28 Anaerobic dark energy generation in the mat-building cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes
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    Chapter 29 Production and consumption of volatile organosulfur compounds in microbial mats
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    Chapter 30 The carbon isotope biogeochemistry of microbial mats
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    Chapter 31 The fluxes of inorganic carbon and CO 2 -dependent genes involved in the cyanobacterial inorganic carbon-concentrating mechanism: A view on some of the open questions
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    Chapter 32 Oxygenic photosynthesis and light distribution in marine microbial mats
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    Chapter 33 The effects of irradiance, temperature and desiccation on cyanobacterial photosynthesis: A possible explanation for the diurnal changes in surface waterblooms
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    Chapter 34 Denitrification, nitrification and nitrogen assimilation in photosynthetic microbial mats
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    Chapter 35 Nitrogen fixation dynamics in microbial mats
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    Chapter 36 Relationships between functional groups of organisms in microbial mats
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    Chapter 37 Diel and spatial fluctuations of sulfur transformations
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    Chapter 38 Novel metabolic capacities of sulfate-reducing bacteria, and their activities in microbial mats
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    Chapter 39 Diversity of and interactions among sulphur bacteria in microbial mats
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    Chapter 40 Phototrophic oxidation of ferrous minerals — a new aspect in the redox microbiology of iron
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    Chapter 41 Heterocystous versus non-heterocystous cyanobacteria in microbial mats
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    Chapter 42 Development of versicolored microbial mats: Succession of microbial communities
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    Chapter 43 Light-driven sulfate reduction and methane emission in hypersaline cyanobacterial mats
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    Chapter 44 Bioremediability and biological value of microbial mats
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    Chapter 45 New concepts in biogeochemical cycling and ecology
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    Chapter 46 Cyanobacterial mats in general biology