High-resolution in-situ thermal imaging of microbial mats at El Tatio Geyser, Chile shows coupling between community color and temperature

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Dunckel, Anne E ^a   Cardenas, M Bayani ^a   Sawyer, Audrey H ^a   Bennett, Philip C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL MATS; OPTIMAL TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURED COMMUNITIES; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TEMPERATURE VALUES; THERMAL IMAGES; THERMAL IMAGING; THERMAL INFRARED IMAGING; VISUAL IMAGE;

GEYSERS; MICROORGANISMS;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

COLOR; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; IMAGING METHOD; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL MAT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMAL SPRING;

ANTOFAGASTA; CHILE; EL TATIO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 72049100382     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041366     Document Type: Article

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