Microbial mat that forms on the surface of water or rocks
Beneath a floating algal matAlgal mat from above
Algal mats are one of many types of microbial mat that forms on the surface of water or rocks. They are typically composed of blue-green cyanobacteria and sediments. Formation occurs when alternating layers of blue-green bacteria and sediments are deposited or grow in place, creating dark-laminated layers. Stromatolites are prime examples of algal mats. Algal mats played an important role in the Great Oxidation Event on Earth some 2.3 billion years ago. Algal mats can become a significant ecological problem, if the mats grow so expansive or thick as to disrupt the other underwater marine life by blocking the sunlight or producing toxic chemicals.
Algalmats are one of many types of microbial mat that forms on the surface of water or rocks. They are typically composed of blue-green cyanobacteria...
treatment and for cleaning up pollution. Microbial mats may also be referred to as algalmats and bacterial mats. They are a type of biofilm that is large enough...
benthic microbial communities, such as algalmats, inhabit various layers of the lake. Some of these algalmats are associated with the stromatolites while...
otherwise be restricted. Algalmat, a type of microbial mat formed on the water surface or on the surface of rocks Egbere, a mat-carrying creature in Yoruba...
these regions, and adding it can lead to the formation of phytoplankton algal blooms. Iron primarily reaches the ocean through the deposition of dust...
has media related to Algal blooms. Algaculture – Aquaculture involving the farming of algae AlgaeBase – Species database Algal bloom – Spread of planktonic...
A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced...
Geo-tourism: Also called "Buxa Formation of Mamley", is Algalmat#StromatolitesStromatolite Algalmat with circular structures in the limestone of Proterozoic...
endosymbionts to acantharian radiolarians. Phaeocystis is an important algal genus found as part of the marine phytoplankton around the world. It has...
microbial mats contain fossils, and Ediacaran fossils are almost always found in beds that contain these microbial mats. Although microbial mats were once...
regime. They may then become incorporated into a semi-continuous algalmat or form an algal build-up. While corals are animals that are both autotrophic (photosynthesize...
present Atlantic Ocean margin of the United States lay to the east. An algalmat-covered carbonate bank was deposited, forming the Noonday Dolomite. Subsidence...
which is usually a sea but might also be a river, lake, coral reef, or algalmat, the formation of an oil or gas reservoir also requires a sedimentary...
Oligochaetes are also abundant in areas supporting porous and spongy layers of algalmat. Heard Island is a heavily glaciated, subantarctic volcanic island located...
nutrients, causing algae to grow more rapidly and coalesce into algalmats. These algalmats are in turn colonized by invertebrates. The abundance of nutrients...
known. In at least one species, the female lays a single large egg on the algalmat. Hydroscaphid species have been reported from every continent except Antarctica...
bacterium from the genus of Alkalicoccus. It was first isolated from the algalmat of a mineral pool in the Malvizza mud volcanoes of Campania and can tolerate...
"Microbial carbonates: The geological record of calcified bacterial-algalmats and biofilms". Sedimentology. 47: 179–214. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000...
structures created by photosynthetic organisms as they establish a microbial mat on a sediment surface. An important distinction for biogenicity is their...
They can form large unattached fragments that can form a mat like structure. This algalmat can act as UV protection for fish and act as a source of food...
molecules released from the dead bacterial cells stimulate fresh bacterial and algal growth. Viral activity may also contribute to the biological pump, the process...
plants has resulted in a wide range of complexity, from the earliest algalmats of unicellular archaeplastids evolved through endosymbiosis, through multicellular...
disperse at dusk to feed on the algalmat that grows over the surface of seabed. In the course of tearing up the mat the urchin also abrades the underlying...
molecules released from the dead bacterial cells stimulate fresh bacterial and algal growth. Viral activity may also contribute to the biological pump, the process...
grainy carbonate, muddy carbonate, sandstone, shale, and Stromatolitic–Algalmat Boundstones. Stromatolite reefs are a common occurrence in the Shakopee...
terrestrial deposits but exhibit increasingly restricted diversity within algal communities. Due to the ephemeral nature of many anchialine systems and...
Formation. The upper part was formed after silt and sand destroyed the algalmat, forming siltstone and sandstone. Laterally extensive diabase sills of...
Algae fuel, algal biofuel, or algal oil is an alternative to liquid fossil fuels that uses algae as its source of energy-rich oils. Also, algae fuels...
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