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Benthos --- Microbial mats --- Microbiology --- Congresses. --- Mats, Microbial --- Microbial aggregation --- Microbial ecology --- Benthal organisms --- Benthic organisms --- Benthonic organisms --- Aquatic biology --- Aquatic organisms --- Microbiology&delete& --- Congresses

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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.

Fossils. --- Microbial mats. --- Microbial mats --- Micropaleontology --- Stromatolites --- Life --- Extreme environments --- Cyanobacteria --- Microbiological Phenomena --- Biofilms --- Bacteria --- Phenomena and Processes --- Gram-Negative Oxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria --- Organisms --- Gram-Negative Bacteria --- Microbiology & Immunology --- Biology - General --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Origin --- Mats, Microbial --- Life sciences. --- Earth sciences. --- Geobiology. --- Ecology. --- Microbial ecology. --- Microbiology. --- Life Sciences. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Biogeosciences. --- Microbial aggregation --- Microbial ecology --- Geography. --- Environmental microbiology --- Microorganisms --- Ecology --- Microbiology --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Microbial biology --- Ecology . --- Biosphere --- Geosciences --- Physical sciences