Terrestrial groundwater discharging directly into the sea (“fresh submarine groundwater
discharge”, fresh SGD) is increasingly recognized as nutrient and pollutant pathway from …

Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is the combination of fresh and saline
groundwater flux to marine system through continental boundaries regardless of its chemical …

Coasts are among our most valuable natural assets but are under intense pressure from
human use and climate change. Despite this, coasts–as a coherent ecological unit–have …

Lithified layers of complex microbial mats known as microbialites are ubiquitous in the fossil
record, and modern forms are increasingly identified globally. A key challenge to develo** …

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 …

Abstract The South African coastline is just over 3000 km in length yet it covers three major
biogeographic regions, namely subtropical, warm temperate and cool temperate. In this …

The present study describes for the first time the community composition and functional
potential of the microbial mats found in the supratidal, gypsum-rich and hypersaline region …

Modern stromatolites represent ideal ecosystems to understand the biological processes
required for the precipitation of carbonate due to their long evolutionary history and …

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 …