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Heterocystous versus non-heterocystous cyanobacteria in microbial mats

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Microbial Mats

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIG,volume 35))

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Relative to biological demands, marine waters are often depleted in combined forms of nitrogen (Dugdale 1967). As such, the development of microbial mats in coastal marine environments is dependent on the fixation of atmospheric dinitrogen as the dominant source of biologically available N.

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  1. Laboratory for Microbiology, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 127, 1018 WS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Lucas J. Stal, Hans W. Paerl, Brad Bebout & Marlies Villbrandt

  2. Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, 3407 Arendell Street, Morehead City, NC, 28557, USA

    Hans W. Paerl

  3. Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Fahrenheitstraße 1, D-280Q, Bremen, Germany

    Brad Bebout

  4. ICBM, University of Oldenburg, Schleusenstraße 16, D-2940, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

    Marlies Villbrandt

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  1. Laboratory for Microbiology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Lucas J. Stal

  2. Laboratoire d’Oceanographie Biologique, Université de Bordeaux I, F-33120, Arcachon, France

    Pierre Caumette

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Stal, L.J., Paerl, H.W., Bebout, B., Villbrandt, M. (1994). Heterocystous versus non-heterocystous cyanobacteria in microbial mats. In: Stal, L.J., Caumette, P. (eds) Microbial Mats. NATO ASI Series, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78991-5_41

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