Microbiology of the atmosphere-rock interface: How biological interactions and physical stresses modulate a sophisticated microbial ecosystem

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2009, Pages 431-450

  Gorbushina, Anna A ^a,b,c   Broughton, William J ^c  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Geobiology; Microcolonial fungi; Rock inhabiting fungi phototroph symbioses; Soil formation; Subaerial biofilms; Weathering

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESICCATION; GREEN ALGA; LITHOSPHERE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PEDOGENESIS (SOIL); PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROCK; SOLAR RADIATION; SYMBIONT; WEATHERING;

ALGAE, GREEN; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 70349547203     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.091208.073349     Document Type: Review

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