Natural ocean iron fertilization and climate variability over geological periods

HB Jiang, DA Hutchins, W Ma, RF Zhang… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Marine primary producers are largely dependent on and shape the Earth's climate, although
their relationship with climate varies over space and time. The growth of phytoplankton and …

[HTML][HTML] The trouble with oxygen: The ecophysiology of extant phototrophs and implications for the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis

TL Hamilton - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability to harvest light to drive chemical reactions and gain energy provided microbes
access to high energy electron donors which fueled primary productivity, biogeochemical …

[HTML][HTML] The Great Oxygenation Event as a consequence of ecological dynamics modulated by planetary change

J Olejarz, Y Iwasa, AH Knoll, MA Nowak - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Great Oxygenation Event (GOE), ca. 2.4 billion years ago, transformed life and
environments on Earth. Its causes, however, are debated. We mathematically analyze the …

Cyanobacterial photosynthesis under sulfidic conditions: insights from the isolate Leptolyngbya sp. strain hensonii

TL Hamilton, JM Klatt, D De Beer… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We report the isolation of a pinnacle-forming cyanobacterium isolated from a microbial mat
covering the sediment surface at Little Salt Spring—a flooded sinkhole in Florida with a …

Shotgun metagenomic sequencing reveals the full taxonomic, trophic, and functional diversity of a coral reef benthic cyanobacterial mat from Bonaire, Caribbean …

EC Cissell, SJ McCoy - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic forcing is spurring cyanobacterial proliferation in aquatic ecosystems
worldwide. While planktonic cyanobacterial blooms have received substantial research …

Controls on O2 Production in Cyanobacterial Mats and Implications for Earth's Oxygenation

GJ Dick, SL Grim, JM Klatt - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Cyanobacterial mats are widely assumed to have been globally significant hot spots of
biogeochemistry and evolution during the Archean and Proterozoic, but little is known about …

Phototrophic marine benthic microbiomes: the ecophysiology of these biological entities

LJ Stal, H Bolhuis, MS Cretoiu - Environmental microbiology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Phototrophic biofilms are multispecies, self‐sustaining and largely closed microbial
ecosystems. They form macroscopic structures such as microbial mats and stromatolites …

Temperature and geographic location impact the distribution and diversity of photoautotrophic gene variants in alkaline Yellowstone hot springs

AC Bennett, SK Murugapiran, ED Kees… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Alkaline hot springs in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) provide a framework to study the
relationship between photoautotrophs and temperature. Previous work has focused on …

Vertical distribution and diversity of phototrophic bacteria within a hot spring microbial Mat (Nakabusa hot springs, Japan)

JN Martinez, A Nishihara, M Lichtenberg… - Microbes and …, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Phototrophic microbial mats are assemblages of vertically layered microbial populations
dominated by photosynthetic microorganisms. In order to elucidate the vertical distribution …

A benthic oxygen oasis in the early Neoproterozoic ocean

H Wang, A Liu, C Li, Q Feng, S Tang, M Cheng… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
Benthic oxygen oases linked to photosynthetic mats have been reported in modern anoxic
aquatic systems. Benthic macroalgal blooms were common in stratified, anoxic …