Furthermore, cyanobacteria are important in calcification and decalcification. All limestone surfaces have a layer of boring algae in which cyanobacteria often play a dominant role. Cyanobacterial symbioses are abundant in coral reefs; the most common hosts are sponges and ascidians. Cyanobacteria use ...
Effects of biological soil crusts on soil nematode communities following dune stabilization in the Tengger Desert, Northern China Biological soil crusts (BSCs) play an important role in the dune fixation and maintaining soil biota in arid desert systems. Free-living soil nematode comm... Y Liu,X...
Calothrix(Nostocales) was observed on 100% of theS. spinusbitecores. The presence ofCalothrixon coral reefs is reported in early studies (Randall1955; Scott and Russ1987; Larkum1988; Larkum et al.1988), and CCA andCalothrixare considered primary colonizers of bare substratum following grazing (H...
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The results of previous studies that focused on the decisive role of physical disturbances in determining diversity and the productivity–diversity relationship for phytoplankton in lakes, suggested that the relationships between productivity and diversity can be used to assess ecological state [70, 71]....
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Calcification affects the sheath of some coccoid and filamentous cyanobacteria during their life, under suitable environmental conditions. There is probably a link between sheath character, the environment and nucleation of CaCO3 within or upon the sheat
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Marine studies on herbivory have addressed the role of algae as food and shelter for small consumers, but the potential of benthic cyanobacteria to play similar roles is largely unknown. Here, feeding preferences were measured for eight invertebrate consumers from Guam, offered four common macroalgae...
These results stress the critical role of herbivory in determining coral reef community structure and suggest that the relative palatabilities of dominant algae, as well as algal growth responses to nutrient enrichment, will determine the potential for phase shifts to algal-dominated communities....