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A comparative experimental and multiphysics computational fluid dynamics study of coupled surface-subsurface flow in bed forms

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A diver-operated hyperspectral imaging and topographic surveying system for automated mapping of benthic habitats

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A fast-responding CO2microelectrode for profiling sediments, microbial mats, and biofilms

scientific article published in November 1997

A method for imaging of low pH in live cells based on excited state saturation

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A method to determine photosynthetic activity from oxygen microsensor data in biofilms subjected to evaporation

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A new tool for long-term studies of POM-bacteria interactions: overcoming the century-old Bottle Effect

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A nitrate-selective microelectrode based on a lipophilic derivative of iodocobalt(III)salen

A novel, mat-forming Thiomargarita population associated with a sulfidic fluid flow from a deep-sea mud volcano

scientific article published on 15 October 2010

Abundance and diversity of aerobic heterotrophic microorganisms and their interaction with cyanobacteria in the oxic layer of an intertidal hypersaline cyanobacterial mat.

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Aerobic denitrification in permeable Wadden Sea sediments

scientific article published on 10 December 2009

Aerobic organic carbon mineralization by sulfate-reducing bacteria in the oxygen-saturated photic zone of a hypersaline microbial mat.

scientific article published in February 2005

Anoxygenic photosynthesis controls oxygenic photosynthesis in a cyanobacterium from a sulfidic spring

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Arctic Coralline Algae Elevate Surface pH and Carbonate in the Dark

article published in 2018

Bacterial diversity of a cyanobacterial mat degrading petroleum compounds at elevated salinities and temperatures

scientific article published in August 2006

Biofilm structural heterogeneity visualized by three microscopic methods

scholarly article by Philip S. Stewart et al published August 1995 in Water Research

Biological and chemical sulfide oxidation in a Beggiatoa inhabited marine sediment

scientific article published on 28 June 2007

Biotic Control of Surface pH and Evidence of Light-Induced H+ Pumping and Ca2+-H+ Exchange in a Tropical Crustose Coralline Alga

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CO2 leakage alters biogeochemical and ecological functions of submarine sands.

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Changes in microbial communities in coastal sediments along natural CO2 gradients at a volcanic vent in Papua New Guinea

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Characterization of denitrifying granular sludge with and without the addition of external carbon source.

scientific article published on 19 August 2012

Chimney construction byChironomus ripariuslarvae in response to hypoxia: microbial implications for freshwater sediments

Close association of active nitrifiers with Beggiatoa mats covering deep-sea hydrothermal sediments

scientific article published on 28 November 2013

Colonies of marine cyanobacteria Trichodesmium interact with associated bacteria to acquire iron from dust

scientific article published on 02 August 2019

Combined gel probe and isotope labeling technique for measuring dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in sediments at millimeter-level resolution

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Community structure and activity of a highly dynamic and nutrient-limited hypersaline microbial mat in Um Alhool Sabkha, Qatar

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Contribution of Chloroflexus respiration to oxygen cycling in a hypersaline microbial mat from Lake Chiprana, Spain

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Conversion and conservation of light energy in a photosynthetic microbial mat ecosystem

scientific article published on 12 November 2009

Cultivation-independent characterization of 'Candidatus Magnetobacterium bavaricum' via ultrastructural, geochemical, ecological and metagenomic methods.

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Cyanobacteria in Sulfidic Spring Microbial Mats Can Perform Oxygenic and Anoxygenic Photosynthesis Simultaneously during an Entire Diurnal Period

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Cyanobacterial photosynthesis under sulfidic conditions: insights from the isolate Leptolyngbya sp. strain hensonii

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Degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-d) by a hypersaline microbial mat and related functional changes in the mat community

scientific article published on 10 June 2004

Degradation of petroleum model compounds immobilized on clay by a hypersaline microbial mat.

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Denitrification in human dental plaque

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Diatoms respire nitrate to survive dark and anoxic conditions

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Direct Nitrous Oxide Emission from the Aquacultured Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Dissimilatory nitrate reduction by Aspergillus terreus isolated from the seasonal oxygen minimum zone in the Arabian Sea.

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Dissolution of calcite in the twilight zone: bacterial control of dissolution of sinking planktonic carbonates is unlikely

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Distribution of sulfate-reducing and methanogenic bacteria in anaerobic aggregates determined by microsensor and molecular analyses

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Distribution, localization, and phylogeny of abundant populations of Crenarchaeota in anaerobic granular sludge

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Diversity and vertical distribution of magnetotactic bacteria along chemical gradients in freshwater microcosms

scientific article published on 29 December 2004

Effect of high electron donor supply on dissimilatory nitrate reduction pathways in a bioreactor for nitrate removal

scientific article published on 23 August 2014

Effect of nitrate on sulfur transformations in sulfidogenic sludge of a marine aquaculture biofilter.

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Effect of oxygen concentration on photosynthesis and respiration in two hypersaline microbial mats

scientific article published on 6 August 2002

Effect of salinity changes on the bacterial diversity, photosynthesis and oxygen consumption of cyanobacterial mats from an intertidal flat of the Arabian Gulf

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Effect of sulfate on low-temperature anaerobic digestion

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Effects of Bioadvection by Arenicola marina on Microphytobenthos in Permeable Sediments

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Effects of biofilm structures on oxygen distribution and mass transport

scientific article published on 01 May 1994

Effects of suspended sediments and nutrient enrichment on juvenile corals

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Endosymbiotic sulphate-reducing and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria in an oligochaete worm

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Eruption of a deep-sea mud volcano triggers rapid sediment movement

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Evidence for fungal and chemodenitrification based N2O flux from nitrogen impacted coastal sediments.

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Evidence for water-mediated mechanisms in coral-algal interactions

scientific article published in August 2016

Evidence of nitrification and denitrification in high and low microbial abundance sponges

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Filamentous giant from Guaymas Basin are capable of both denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA)

scientific article published in 2018

Fine-scale measurement of diffusivity in a microbial mat with nuclear magnetic resonance imaging

Flowing biofilms as a transport mechanism for biomass through porous media under laminar and turbulent conditions in a laboratory reactor system

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Full in vivo characterization of carbonate chemistry at the site of calcification in corals

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

Functioning of intertidal flats inferred from temporal and spatial dynamics of O2, H2S and pH in their surface sediment

Geochemical and microbiological fingerprinting of airborne dust that fell in Canberra, Australia, in October 2002

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Geochemical processes and chemosynthetic primary production in different thiotrophic mats of the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano (Barents Sea)

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Halotaxis of cyanobacteria in an intertidal hypersaline microbial mat.

scientific article published on 17 November 2009

Heterogeneous Distribution of Microbial Activity in Methanogenic Aggregates: pH and Glucose Microprofiles.

scientific article published on November 1993

High Nitrification Rate at Low pH in a Fluidized Bed Reactor with either Chalk or Sintered Glass as the Biofilm Carrier

High dissolved organic carbon release by benthic cyanobacterial mats in a Caribbean reef ecosystem

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High rates of denitrification and nitrous oxide emission in arid biological soil crusts from the Sultanate of Oman

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

High resolution functional analysis and community structure of photogranules

scientific article published on 30 March 2023

High spatial resolution measurement of oxygen consumption rates in permeable sediments

scientific article published in 2005

High temporal resolution of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) dynamics during heat stress does not support a causative role in coral bleaching

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Hydrogen sulfide can inhibit and enhance oxygenic photosynthesis in a cyanobacterium from sulfidic springs

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Identification and activities in situ of Nitrosospira and Nitrospira spp. as dominant populations in a nitrifying fluidized bed reactor

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Identification of bacteria potentially responsible for oxic and anoxic sulfide oxidation in biofilters of a recirculating mariculture system

scientific article published on October 2005

Impact of nitrate on the structure and function of bacterial biofilm communities in pipelines used for injection of seawater into oil fields

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Impacts of Warming and Acidification on Coral Calcification Linked to Photosymbiont Loss and Deregulation of Calcifying Fluid pH

scientific article published in 2022

In situ coral reef oxygen metabolism: an eddy correlation study

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In situ distribution and activity of nitrifying bacteria in freshwater sediment

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

In situ fluxes and zonation of microbial activity in surface sediments of the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano

scholarly article by Dirk De Beer et al published May 2006 in Limnology and Oceanography

In situ oxygen dynamics in coral-algal interactions

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In situ substrate conversion and assimilation by nitrifying bacteria in a model biofilm

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Insights into the genome of large sulfur bacteria revealed by analysis of single filaments

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Intracellular nitrate storage by diatoms can be an important nitrogen pool in freshwater and marine ecosystems

scientific article published in 2022

Light utilization efficiency in photosynthetic microbial mats

scientific article published on 19 December 2011

Limitation of oxygenic photosynthesis and oxygen consumption by phosphate and organic nitrogen in a hypersaline microbial mat: a microsensor study

scientific article published in July 2006

Liquid flow and mass transport in heterogeneous biofilms

article published in 1996

Liquid flow in heterogeneous biofilms.

scientific article published in August 1994

Longitudinal Telomere Erosion in Lymphocyte Subsets of Patients with Atherosclerotic Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD).

scientific article published on March 2015

Low-Light Anoxygenic Photosynthesis and Fe-S-Biogeochemistry in a Microbial Mat.

scientific article published on 27 April 2018

Manganese oxidation by microbial consortia from sand filters

scientific article published in July 1992

Measurement of local diffusion coefficients in biofilms by microinjection and confocal microscopy.

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Mechanisms of damage to corals exposed to sedimentation

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Mechanisms of transient nitric oxide and nitrous oxide production in a complex biofilm.

scientific article published on 11 June 2009

Metabolic microenvironmental control by photosynthetic biofilms under changing macroenvironmental temperature and pH conditions

scientific article (publication date: October 2008)

Metabolic shifts in hypersaline microbial mats upon addition of organic substrates

scientific article published in November 2002

Metabolically active microbial communities in marine sediment under high-CO(2) and low-pH extremes

scientific article (publication date: March 2013)

Methane and sulfide fluxes in permanent anoxia: In situ studies at the Dvurechenskii mud volcano (Sorokin Trough, Black Sea)

scholarly article by Anna Lichtschlag et al published September 2010 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Micro-Electrodes

Microbial Biofilms

article published in 2013

Microbial Biofilms

Microbial and chemical characterization of underwater fresh water springs in the Dead Sea

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Microbial community structure of sandy intertidal sediments in the North Sea, Sylt-Rømø Basin, Wadden Sea.

scientific article published on 23 January 2006

Microbial diversity of a heavily polluted microbial mat and its community changes following degradation of petroleum compounds.

scientific article published on April 2002

Microbial diversity of eolian dust sources from saline lake sediments and biological soil crusts in arid Southern Australia

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Microbial effects on biofilm calcification, ambient water chemistry and stable isotope records in a highly supersaturated setting (Westerhöfer Bach, Germany)

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Microbial photosynthesis in coral reef sediments (Heron Reef, Australia)

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Microenvironments and distribution of nitrifying bacteria in a membrane-bound biofilm.

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Microenvironments of reduced salinity harbour biofilms in Dead Sea underwater springs

scientific article published on 19 January 2014

Microscale distribution of populations and activities of Nitrosospira and Nitrospira spp. along a macroscale gradient in a nitrifying bioreactor: quantification by in situ hybridization and the use of microsensors.

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Microscale profiling of photosynthesis-related variables in a highly productive biofilm photobioreactor

scientific article published on 24 October 2015

Microscopic oxygen imaging based on fluorescein bleaching efficiency measurements

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Microsensor Studies of Oxygen, Carbon, and Nitrogen Cycles in Lake Sediments and Microbial Mats

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Microsensor for radioactivity

Microsensor studies on Padina from a natural CO2 seep: implications of morphology on acclimation to low pH.

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Microsensor study of photosynthesis and calcification in the scleractinian coral, Galaxea fascicularis: active internal carbon cycle

scholarly article by Fuad A. Al-Horani et al published March 2003 in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Microsensors for Sediments, Microbial Mats, and Biofilms

Miniaturised carbon dioxide sensor designed for measurements within plant leaves

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Modular spectral imaging system for discrimination of pigments in cells and microbial communities

scientific article published on 12 December 2008

Molecular characterization of bacteria associated with the trophosome and the tube of Lamellibrachia sp., a siboglinid annelid from cold seeps in the eastern Mediterranean

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

N2 fixation in free-floating filaments of Trichodesmium is higher than in transiently suboxic colony microenvironments

scientific article published on 29 December 2018

New highly fluorescent pH indicator for ratiometric RGB imaging of pCO2.

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Niche differentiation among mat-forming, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria at cold seeps of the Nile Deep Sea Fan (Eastern Mediterranean Sea).

scientific article published on 29 April 2011

Nitric Oxide Microsensor for High Spatial Resolution Measurements in Biofilms and Sediments

scientific article published on 16 January 2008

Nitrification in a biofilm at low pH values: role of in situ microenvironments and acid tolerance

scientific article published in June 2006

Nitrification in freshwater sediments as influenced by insect larvae: quantification by microsensors and fluorescence in situ hybridization

scientific article published on 22 April 2004

Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria

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Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as a methane sink

scientific article published on October 2006

Novel observations of Thiobacterium, a sulfur-storing Gammaproteobacterium producing gelatinous mats

scientific article published on 11 March 2010

OXYGEN MICROSENSOR STUDIES ON ZOOXANTHELLATE CLIONAID SPONGES FROM THE COSTA BRAVA, MEDITERRANEAN SEA1

Organic matter degradation drives benthic cyanobacterial mat abundance on Caribbean coral reefs

scientific article published on 5 May 2015

Oxygen and pH microprofiles above corroding mild steel covered with a biofilm

Oxygen dynamics and flow patterns of Dysidea avara (Porifera: Demospongiae)

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 87 no. 6, December 2007

Oxygen dynamics and transport in the Mediterranean sponge Aplysina aerophoba

scientific article published on 22 January 2008

Oxygen-independent glucose microsensor based on glucose oxidase

Oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis in a microbial mat from an anoxic and sulfidic spring

scientific article published on 30 December 2016

Oxygenic photosynthesis as a protection mechanism for cyanobacteria against iron-encrustation in environments with high Fe(2+) concentrations

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Photosynthesis under very high oxygen concentrations in dense microbial mats and biofilms

scholarly article published 31 May 2018

Photosynthesis, Respiration and Exopolymer Calcium-Binding in Biofilm Calcification (Westerhöfer and Deinschwanger Creek, Germany)

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Phototrophic biofilm activity and dynamics of diurnal Cd cycling in a freshwater stream

scientific article published in October 2009

Phylogenetic diversity and activity of aerobic heterotrophic bacteria from a hypersaline oil-polluted microbial mat.

scientific article published on 23 October 2006

Physiological adaptation of a nitrate-storing Beggiatoa sp. to diel cycling in a phototrophic hypersaline mat.

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Quantification of the effects of ocean acidification on sediment microbial communities in the environment: the importance of ecosystem approaches

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Rapid Reactivation of Cyanobacterial Photosynthesis and Migration upon Rehydration of Desiccated Marine Microbial Mats

scientific article published on 24 December 2015

Rapid recovery of cyanobacterial pigments in desiccated biological soil crusts following addition of water

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Reactive oxygen species affect the potential for mineralization processes in permeable intertidal flats

scientific article published on 20 February 2023

Resilience of pore-water chemistry and calcification in photosynthetic zones of calcifying sediments

scholarly article by Raphaela Schoon et al published 21 December 2009 in Limnology and Oceanography

Resistance of Lophelia pertusa to coverage by sediment and petroleum drill cuttings

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Response of Posidonia oceanica seagrass and its epibiont communities to ocean acidification

scientific article published on 9 August 2017

Response of the ubiquitous pelagic diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii to darkness and anoxia

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Role of Extracellular Carbonic Anhydrase in Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Uptake in Alkaliphilic Phototrophic Biofilm

scientific article published in 2018

Role of diatoms in the spatial-temporal distribution of intracellular nitrate in intertidal sediment

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Role of nitric oxide in Salmonella typhimurium-mediated cancer cell killing

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Section 8 update: Use of microelectrodes to measure in situ microbial activities in biofilms, sediments, and microbial mats

Shell biofilm-associated nitrous oxide production in marine molluscs: processes, precursors and relative importance.

scientific article published on 26 July 2012

Shorter telomeres correlate with an increase in the number of uniparental disomies in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Small-Scale Distribution of Interstitial Nitrite in Freshwater Sediment Microcosms: The Role of Nitrate and Oxygen Availability, and Sediment Permeability

scientific article published on 28 March 2002

Spatial distribution of calcification and photosynthesis in the scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis

scholarly article by Fuad A. Al-Horani et al published 8 December 2004 in Coral Reefs

Spatial distribution of diatom and cyanobacterial mats in the Dead Sea is determined by response to rapid salinity fluctuations

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Structure and function of natural sulphide-oxidizing microbial mats under dynamic input of light and chemical energy

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Successional development of sulfate-reducing bacterial populations and their activities in an activated sludge immobilized agar gel film

scientific article published on April 2002

Sulfate reduction and sulfide oxidation in extremely steep salinity gradients formed by freshwater springs emerging into the Dead Sea.

scientific article published on 17 November 2014

Sulfide-oxidizing activity and bacterial community structure in a fluidized bed reactor from a zero-discharge mariculture system

scientific article published in March 2005

The Ellrott grab: A small, lightweight sediment sampler for collecting undisturbed sandy sediments

scientific article published on 15 January 2024

The Guaymas Basin Hiking Guide to Hydrothermal Mounds, Chimneys, and Microbial Mats: Complex Seafloor Expressions of Subsurface Hydrothermal Circulation

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The O2, pH and Ca2+ microenvironment of benthic foraminifera in a high CO2 world

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

The influence of phototrophic benthic biofilms on Cd, Cu, Ni, and Pb transport in permeable sediments

The response of seagrass (<i>Posidonia oceanica</i>) meadow metabolism to CO<sub>2</sub> levels and hydrodynamic exchange determined with aquatic eddy covariance

The role of nitric-oxide-synthase-derived nitric oxide in multicellular traits of Bacillus subtilis 3610: biofilm formation, swarming, and dispersal

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Thermal stress reduces pocilloporid coral resilience to ocean acidification by impairing control over calcifying fluid chemistry

scientific article published in 2021

Tufa-forming biofilms of German karstwater streams: microorganisms, exopolymers, hydrochemistry and calcification

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Two-Dimensional Mapping of Arsenic Concentration and Speciation with Diffusive Equilibrium in Thin-Film Gels

scientific article published on 16 May 2023

Two-dimensional mapping of photopigment distribution and activity of Chloroflexus-like bacteria in a hypersaline microbial mat.

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Uptake rates of oxygen and sulfide measured with individual Thiomargarita namibiensis cells by using microelectrodes

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Vacuolar respiration of nitrate coupled to energy conservation in filamentous Beggiatoaceae.

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Vacuolated Beggiatoa-like filaments from different hypersaline environments form a novel genus

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VacuolatedBeggiatoa-like filaments from different hypersaline environments form a novel genus

scientific article published in 2012