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 …

Coastal zones are among the most productive marine environments and many are highly
impacted by anthropogenic activity. Coastal zones are key regions for the transformation of …

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

Studying the lacustrine microbialites in the Qaidam Basin may provide clues to the
occurrence and mineralization processes of microbial communities in extremely harsh …

Chemosynthetic microorganisms facilitate microbialite development in many caves
throughout the world. In Youqin Cave and Tian'e Cave, located in the Carboniferous …

Parasites have deleterious effects on their hosts, often resulting in altered host behavior or
increased energy expenditure. When organisms are exposed to suboptimal environments …

Benthic pennate diatoms are found in a wide variety of marine, freshwater and terrestrial
environments. The majority of species produce extracellular polymeric substances (EPS …

Determining how organisms respond to environmental gradients or variability is a central
theme in ecology, which can be used to predict niche occupation. In this study we assessed …

Great Salt Lake hosts an ecosystem that is critical to migratory birds and international
aquaculture, yet it is currently threatened by falling lake elevation and high lakewater salinity …

Urbanisation and population growth are concentrated on the coast with approximately 40%
of the human population living within 100 km of the ocean. The freshwater systems on which …