Long-term manipulations of intact microbial mat communities in a greenhouse collaboratory: Simulating earth's present and past field environments

Astrobiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 383-402

  Bebout, Brad M ^a   Carpenter, Steven P ^a   Des Marais, David J ^a   Discipulo, Mykell ^b   Embaye, Tsegereda ^b   Garcia Pichel, Ferran ^c   Hoehler, Tori M ^a   Hogan, Mary ^d   Jahnke, Linda L ^a   Keller, Richard M ^a   Miller, Scott R ^e   Prufert Bebout, Leslie E ^a   Raleigh, Chris ^f   Rothrock, Michael ^c   Turk, Kendra ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Biomarkers; Microbial mat

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; METHANE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROCLIMATE; MICROELECTRODE;

CYANOBACTERIA; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HYDROGEN; MARINE BIOLOGY; METHANE; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN;

EID: 0013275364     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/153110702762470491     Document Type: Article

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