N2‐fixing heterocytous cyanobacteria are considered to play a minor role in sustaining
coastal microbial mat communities developing under normal marine to hypersaline …

Aerobic heterotrophic microorganisms (AH) play a significant role in carbon cycling in
cyanobacterial mats; however, little is known about their abundance, diversity and …

The diazotrophic community in microbial mats growing along the shore of the North Sea
barrier island Schiermonnikoog (The Netherlands) was studied using microscopy, lipid …

The cyanobacterial community structure and composition of hypersaline mats were
characterized in an experiment in which native salinity and sulfate levels were modified …

A photosynthetic microbial mat was investigated in a large pond of a Mediterranean saltern
(Salins-de-Giraud, Camargue, France) having water salinity from 70‰ to 150‰(w/v) …

A unique opportunity to study both benthic microbial mats and modern stromatolites from a
common niche is presented by the hypersaline environment of Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay …

Cyanobacterial mats are commonly found in freshwater ecosystems throughout the polar
regions. Most mats are multilayered three-dimensional structures with the filamentous …

Microbial mat communities possess extensive taxonomic and functional diversity, which
drive high metabolic rates and rapid cycling of major elements. Modern microbial mats …

The diversity and nitrogenase activity of epilithic marine microbes in a Holocene beach rock
(Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia) with a proposed biological calcification …

The phylogenetic diversity of oxygenic phototrophic microorganisms in hypersaline
microbial mats and their distribution along a salinity gradient were investigated and …