modern and ancient microorganisms in stratified systems Seckbach, J. (Joseph) Oren, Aharon 1952- text bibliography ne Dordrecht New York Springer c2010 2010 monographic eng

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xxvi, 606 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. ; 24 cm. What are microbial mats? / G. Gerdes -- Paper from outer space -- on "meteorpapier" and microbial mats / A. Oren -- 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 / 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. Chacón -- Molecular investigations and experimental manipulations of microbial mats : a view to paleomicrobial 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 -- Biodynamics of modern marine stromatolites / D.M. Paterson et al. -- Entophysalis mats as environmental regulators / S. Gotubic 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 -- 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. Yannarell -- Biogeochemistry of carbon cycling in hypersaline mats : linking the present to the past through biosignatures / P.T. Visscher et al. -- Phototrophic biofilms from Río Tinto, an extreme acidic environment, the prokaryotic component / A. Aguilera et al. -- Fluvial bedform generation by biofilm activity in the Berrocal segment of Río Tinto : acidic biofilms and sedimentation / D.C. Fernández-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 James Ross Island, NW Weddell Sea, Antarctica / O. Komárek and J. Komárek -- Microbial mats in Antarctica as models for the search of life on the Jovian moon Europa / S. Dudeja et al. -- Past, present, and future : microbial mats as models for astrobiological research / J.S. Foster and J.M. Mobberley. edited by Joseph Seckbach and Aharon Oren. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Microbial mats Micropaleontology Stromatolites Life Origin Extreme environments Microbiological Phenomena Biofilms Cyanobacteria QR100.8.M37 M526 2010 579 MIC 2011 D-383 QW 4 9789048137985 (alk. paper) 9048137985 (alk. paper) 9789048137992 (eISBN) 9048137993 (eISBN) 2010925025 NLM 100318 20150910105910.0 16143037