We report two shallow marine, ichnofauna-bivalve-microbial mat biofacies from the Lower
Triassic Xiahuancang Formation of the southern Qilian area, Qinghai Province, northwestern …

Microbialites are known from a range of terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and marginal
settings. The descriptive terminology used in each instance depends largely on the historical …

Highlights•Microplastics are transported from watershed to river, and eventually to the
estuary.•Population clusters are increasingly microplastic emission hotspots in coastal …

Microbialite pools are dynamic, heterogenous environments with extreme physico-chemical
variability in terms of temporal temperature, oxygen and salinity fluctuations. Despite this …

Grazing and burrowing organisms usually homogenise microalgal mats that form on benthic
sediments of many aquatic ecosystems. In the absence of this disruption, microalgal mats …

Stromatolites are complex microbial mats that form lithified layers. Fossilized stromatolites
are the oldest evidence of cellular life on Earth, dating back over 3.4 billion years. Modern …

Microbialites, bioaccretionary structures formed during the growth and metabolism of
microorganisms (principally cyanobacteria) were the dominant lifeform in shallow late …

Land-source inputs into coastal water have increased remarkably in recent years, resulting
in the deterioration of water quality, eutrophication, and algae blooms. However, we have …

Living peritidal stromatolites forming at the interface of coastal groundwater seepage and
regular marine input are known from only a few locations globally, including South Africa …

Microbial mats were the dominant habitat type in shallow marine environments between the
Palaeoarchean and Phanerozoic. Many of these (termed 'microbialites') calcified as they …