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|a Foreword / James T. Staley – Preface / Joseph Seckbach and Aharon Oren – Part 1. The nature of microbial mats. What are microbial mats? / Gerdes, G. – Paper from outer space – on “meteorpapier” and microbial mats / Oren, A. Part. 2. Microbial mats in the geological record. Microbial mats on the early Earth: the Archean rock record / Walsh, M. M. – Gunflint chert microbiota revisited – neither stromatolites, nor cyanobacteria / Krumbein, W. E. – Paleoenvironmental context of microbial mat-related structures in siliciclastic rocks / Eriksson, P. G. et al. – Microbially related structures in siliciclastic sediment resembling ediacaran fossils: examples from India ancient and modern / Banerjae, S. et al. – Osmotrophic biofilms: from modern to ancient / Brasier, M. D. et al. – Microbial mats as a source of biosignatures / Chacón, E. -- Molecular investigations and experimental manipulations of microbial mats: a view to paleomicrobial ecosystems / Green, S. J. and Jahnke, L. L. – Architecture of archaeal-dominated microbial mats from cold seeps in the black sea (Dnjepr canyon Lower Crimean shelf) / Reitner, J. – Part 3. Marine, freshwater and soil biofilms. Biodynamics of modern marine stromatolites / Paterson, D. M. et al. – Entophysalis mats as environmental regulators / Golubic, S. and Abed, R, M. M. – Diversity and role of cyanobacteria and aerobic heterotrophic microorganisms in carbon cycling in arid cyanobacterial mats / Abed, R. M. M. et al. – Ooid accreting diatom communities from the modern marine stromatolites al highborne cay, Bahamas / Franks, J. et al. – Exopolymers (extracellular polymeric substances) in Diatom-dominated marine sediment biofilms / Underwood, G. J. C. – Microbial mats from wind flats of the southern Baltic sea / Heyl, K. et al. – Diazotrophic microbial mats / Severin, I. and Stal, L. J. – Architectures of biocomplexity: lichen-dominated soil crusts and mats / Grube, M. et al. – Iron and bacterial biofilm development / Avidan, O et al. – Part 4. Microbial mats in extreme environments. Mats of filamentous and unicellular cyanobacteria in hypersaline environments / Oren, A. – Marine hypersaline microcoleus-dominated cyanobacterial mats in the saltern at Guerrero negro, Baja California sur, Mexico: a system-level perspective / Des Marais, D. J. – Environmental dynamics, community structure and function in a hypersaline microbial mat / Paerl, H. W. and Yannarell, A. C. – Biogeochemistry of carbon cycling in hypersaline mats: linking the present to the past through biosignatures / Visscher, P. T. et al. – Phototrophic biofilms from Río tinto, an extreme acidic environment, the prokaryotic component / Aguilera, A. et al. – Fluvial bedform generation by biofilm activity in the Berrocal segment of Río tinto: acidic biofilms and sedimentation / Fernández-Remolar, D. C. et al. – Cyanobacterial mats of the meltwater ponds on the McMurdo ice shelf (Antarctica) / Jungblut, A. D. and Neilan, B. A. – Diversity and ecology of cyanobacterial microflora of Antartic seepage habitats: comparison of king George Island, Shetland Islands and James Ross Island, NW Weddell sea, Antartica / Komárek, O. and Komáred, J. – Part 5. Microbial mats and astrobiology. MIcrobial mats in Antartica as models for the search of life on the jovian moon Europa / Dudeja, S. et al. – Past, Present and future: microbial mats as models form astrobiological research / Foster, J. S. and Mobberley, J. M. – Part 6. Outlook and summary. Summery and conclusions / Seckbach, J. et al.
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