E-Book, Englisch, Band 35, 463 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: NATO ASI Series
Stal / Caumette Microbial Mats
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-3-642-78991-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Structure, Development and Environmental Significance
E-Book, Englisch, Band 35, 463 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: NATO ASI Series
ISBN: 978-3-642-78991-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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Research
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Weitere Infos & Material
Opening lecture.- Microbial mat research: The recent past and new perspectives.- I. Colonization and initial processes in mat formation.- Microbial mats in coastal environments.- Species diversity in hot spring microbial mats as revealed by both molecular and enrichment culture approaches — relationship between biodiversity and community structure.- Microbial mats in a thermomineral sulfurous cave.- Establishment of phototrophic purple sulphur bacteria in microbial mat systems.- Biological versus inorganic processes in stromatolite morphogenesis: observations from mineralizing sedimentary systems.- Morphological and chemical transformations of Microcoleus chthonoplastes during early diagenesis in hypersaline microbial mats.- On the significance of solar ultraviolet radiation for the ecology of microbial mats.- Environmental factors controlling the development of microbial mats in inland saline lakes; the granulometric composition of the sediment.- Structure of the sediment at depositional saline environments.- Microbial mediation of sediment structure and behaviour.- Field and cultivated Microcoleus chthonoplastes: The search for clues to its prevalence in marine microbial mats.- The sensitivity for salinity increase in the drought resistant cyanobacterium Crinalium epipsammum SAB 22.89.- Osmotic adaptation of microbial communities in hypersaline microbial mats.- Panel discussion: Colonisation and early development of microbial mat communities.- II. New methods in microbial mat research.- Analysis of microbial mats by use of electrochemical microsensors: Recent advances.- Optical properties of microbial mats: Light measurements with fiber-optic microprobes.- Gas diffusion probe for measurement of CH4 gradients.- Light and electron microscopy in microbial mat research:An overview.- Motility of Microcoleus chthonoplastes subjected to different light intensities quantified by digital image analysis.- Application of molecular genetics to the study of microbial communities.- Determination of the genetic diversity of microbial communities using DGGE analysis of PCR amplified 16 S rDNA.- Exopolymers in microbial mats: Assessing their adaptive roles.- The challenge to analyse extracellular polymers in biofilms.- New cultivation techniques and laboratory model systems for investigating the growth of stratified microbial communities.- Panel discussion: New methods in microbial mat research.- III. Microscale interactions in microbial mats.- Diffusion processes and boundary layers in microbial mats.- Cycling of carbon, sulfur, oxygen and nutrients in a microbial mat.- Nitrogen cycling in microbial mat communities: the quantitative importance of N-fixation and other sources of N for primary productivity.- Anaerobic dark energy generation in the mat-building cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes.- Production and consumption of volatile organosulfur compounds in microbial mats.- Panel discussion: Mcroscale interactions in microbial mats.- IV. Diel and spatial variations of physico-chemical parameters and processes in microbial mats.- The carbon isotope biogeochemistry of microbial mats.- The fluxes of inorganic carbon and CO2-dependent genes involved in the cyanobacterial inorganic carbon-concentrating mechanism: A view on some of the open questions.- Oxygenic photosynthesis and light distribution in marine microbial mats.- The effects of irradiance, temperature and desiccation on cyanobacterial photosynthesis: A possible explanation for the diurnal changes in surface waterblooms.- Denitrification, nitrification and nitrogen assimilation in photosynthetic microbial mats.- Nitrogen fixation dynamics in microbial mats.- Relationships between functional groups of organisms in microbial mats.- Diel and spatial fluctuations of sulfur transformations.- Panel discussion: Diel and spatial variations of physico-chemical parameters and processes in microbial mats.- V. New physiological groups of organisms in microbial mats.- Novel metabolic capacities of sulfate-reducing bacteria, and their activities in microbial mats.- Diversity of and interactions among sulphur bacteria in microbial mats.- Phototrophic oxidation of ferrous minerals — a new aspect in the redox microbiology of iron.- Heterocystous versus non-heterocystous cyanobacteria in microbial mats.- Development of versicolored microbial mats: succession of microbial communities.- Light-driven sulfate reduction and methane emission in hypersaline cyanobacterial mats.- Panel discussion: New physiological groups of bacteria.- VI. Bioremediability and biogeochemical cycles (panel discussion).- Bioremediability and biological value of microbial mats.- New concepts in biogeochemical cycling and ecology.- General considerations.- Cyanobacterial mats in general biology.