Desert breath-How fog promotes a novel type of soil biocenosis, forming the coastal Atacama Desert's living skin.

abstract：:The lower Cambrian grainy phosphorites of the northern Montagne Noire occur interbedded with grey to black, laminated to massive shales and limestones deposited along the edge of a continental shelf, associated with slope-related facies and unstable substrates. The concentration of phosphate took place by repeated alt...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Alvaro JJ,Clausen S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The well-known debate on the nature and origin of intracellular inclusions (ICIs) in silicified microfossils from the early Neoproterozoic Bitter Springs Formation has recently been revived by reports of possible fossilized nuclei in phosphatized animal embryo-like fossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation of So...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Pang K,Tang Q,Schiffbauer JD,Yao J,Yuan X,Wan B,Chen L,Ou Z,Xiao S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotic recovery after the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) impact is one unsolved question concerning this mass extinction event. To evaluate the incidence of the K-Pg event on biota, and the subsequent recovery, a recent environmental disaster has been analysed. Areas affected by the contamination disaster of Aználcollar...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Rodríguez-Tovar FJ,Martín-Peinado FJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New experimental results of fluid-mineral reactions at hydrothermal conditions relevant to life demonstrate that key redox reactions involving iron, sulfur, and hydrogen remain at disequilibrium at 100 °C, even in a heterogeneous system and thus are energetically favorable for microbial metabolism. Predictions from ge...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Houghton JL,Seyfried WE Jr

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ediacaran sediments record an unusual global carbon cycle perturbation that has been linked to widespread oceanic oxygenation, the Shuram negative C isotope excursion (NCIE). However, proxy-based estimates of global ocean redox conditions during this event have been limited largely due to proxy specificity (e.g., euxi...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Fan H,Nielsen SG,Owens JD,Auro M,Shu Y,Hardisty DS,Horner TJ,Bowman CN,Young SA,Wen H

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a variety of leaf characteristics appear to be induced by light environment during development, analysis of ontogenetic changes in living broad leaved trees has suggested that a number of other traits also lumped into the classic 'sun' versus 'shade' morphological distinctions, including leaf size, shape, and...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Boyce CK

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaporitic deposits are a globally widespread habitat for micro-organisms. The microbe-mineral environment in weathered and remobilized gypsum from exposed mid-Ordovician marine evaporite beds in the polar desert of Devon Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic was examined. The gypsum is characterized by internal green...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Cockell CS,Osinski GR,Banerjee NR,Howard KT,Gilmour I,Watson JS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of micro-organisms to oxidize manganese (Mn) from Mn(II) to Mn(III/IV) oxides transcends boundaries of biological clade or domain. Many bacteria and fungi oxidize Mn(II) to Mn(III/IV) oxides directly through enzymatic activity or indirectly through the production of reactive oxygen species. Here, we determ...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Sutherland KM,Wankel SD,Hansel CM

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromatolites are one of the oldest and most intriguing organosedimentary deposits. In contrast to stromatolites of the Precambrian to Early Ordovician, Phanerozoic equivalents occurred episodically under specific conditions. A group of previously undescribed stromatolites in composition occur in the Lower Triassic (O...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Ezaki Y,Liu JB,Adachi N

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The period 800-717 million years (Ma) ago, in the lead-up to the Sturtian Snowball glaciation, saw an increase in the diversity of eukaryotic microfossils. To afford an independent and complementary view of this evolutionary period, this study presents the distribution of eukaryotic biomarkers from three pre-Sturtian ...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Brocks JJ,Jarrett AJ,Sirantoine E,Kenig F,Moczydłowska M,Porter S,Hope J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although nitrogen is a key element in organic molecules such as nucleic acids and proteins, the timing of the emergence of its modern biogeochemical cycle is poorly known. Recent studies on the antiquity of the nitrogen cycle and its interaction with free oxygen suggests the establishment of a complete aerobic N bioge...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Thomazo C,Ader M,Philippot P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ca. 1.9 Ga Beaverlodge Lake paleosol was studied using redox-sensitive Cr isotopes in order to determine the isotopic response to paleoweathering of a rhyodacite parent rock 500 million years after the Great Oxidation Event. Redox reactions occurring in modern weathering environments produce Cr(VI) that is enriche...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Toma J,Holmden C,Shakotko P,Pan Y,Ootes L

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All life requires energy to drive metabolic reactions such as growth and cell maintenance; therefore, fluctuations in energy availability can alter microbial activity. There is a gap in our knowledge concerning how energy availability affects the growth of extreme chemolithoautotrophs. Toward this end, we investigated...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Hart C,Gorman-Lewis D

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zodletone spring in Oklahoma is a unique environment with high concentrations of dissolved-sulfide (10 mm) and short-chain gaseous alkanes, exhibiting characteristics that are reminiscent of conditions that are thought to have existed in Earth's history, in particular the late Archean and early-to-mid Proterozoic. Her...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Bühring SI,Sievert SM,Jonkers HM,Ertefai T,Elshahed MS,Krumholz LR,Hinrichs KU

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alvinellid polychaete worms form multilayered organic tubes in the hottest and most rapidly growing areas of deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimneys. Over short periods of time, these tubes can become entirely mineralized within this environment. Documenting the nature of this process in terms of the stages of mineralizat...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Georgieva MN,Little CT,Ball AD,Glover AG

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few topics in geobiology have been as extensively debated as the role of Earth's oxygenation in controlling when and why animals emerged and diversified. All currently described animals require oxygen for at least a portion of their life cycle. Therefore, the transition to an oxygenated planet was a prerequisite for t...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Cole DB,Mills DB,Erwin DH,Sperling EA,Porter SM,Reinhard CT,Planavsky NJ

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial fossils and textures are commonly preserved in Ediacaran and early Cambrian coarse-grained siliciclastic sediments that were deposited in tidal and intertidal marine settings. In contrast, the fossilization of micro-organisms in similar marine environments of post-Cambrian age is less frequently reported. Th...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Newman SA,Klepac-Ceraj V,Mariotti G,Pruss SB,Watson N,Bosak T

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emplacement of subaqueous gravity-driven sediment flows imposes a significant physical and geochemical impact on underlying sediment and microbial communities. Although previous studies have established lasting mineralogical and biological signatures of turbidite deposition, the response of bacteria and archaea wi...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Harrison BK,Myrbo A,Flood BE,Bailey JV

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ooids from the Mesoarchaean Chobeni Formation, Pongola Supergroup, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa are older than any ooids reported to date. They are made of dolomite and ankerite and show concentric, radial-concentric, micritic, and radial fabrics. Radial ooids are interpreted to have originated from high-Mg-calcite and...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Siahi M,Hofmann A,Master S,Mueller CW,Gerdes A

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paleoenvironmental setting in which the Ediacara Biota lived, died, and was preserved in the eponymous Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite of South Australia is an issue of long-standing interest and recent debate. Over the past few decades, interpretations have ranged from deep marine to shallow marine to t...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Tarhan LG,Planavsky NJ,Wang X,Bellefroid EJ,Droser ML,Gehling JG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal sulfide minerals, including mercury sulfides (HgS), are widespread in hydrothermal vent systems where sulfur-oxidizing microbes are prevalent. Questions remain as to the impact of mineral composition and structure on sulfur-oxidizing microbial populations at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, including the possible ro...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Wang CH,Gulmann LK,Zhang T,Farfan GA,Hansel CM,Sievert SM

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic biomarkers in marine sedimentary rocks hold important clues about the early history of Earth's surface environment. The chemical relicts of carotenoids from anoxygenic sulfur bacteria are of particular interest to geoscientists because of their potential to signal episodes of marine photic-zone euxinia such as...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Meyer KM,Macalady JL,Fulton JM,Kump LR,Schaperdoth I,Freeman KH

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The later Cambrian Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE) event was an episode marked by pronounced changes to the global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and sulfur and significant extinctions on several paleocontinents including Laurentia (North America). While the exact cause(s) of these events remains ...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： LeRoy MA,Gill BC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction, Early Triassic sediments record some of the largest Phanerozoic carbon isotopic excursions. Among them, a global Smithian-negative carbonate carbon isotope excursion has been identified, followed by an abrupt increase across the Smithian-Spathian boundary (SSB; ~250...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Thomazo C,Vennin E,Brayard A,Bour I,Mathieu O,Elmeknassi S,Olivier N,Escarguel G,Bylund KG,Jenks J,Stephen DA,Fara E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combination of scanning transmission X-ray microscopy and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism was used to spatially resolve the distribution of different carbon and iron species associated with Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 cells. S. oneidensis MR-1 couples the reduction of Fe(III)-oxyhydroxides to the oxidation of organ...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Coker VS,Byrne JM,Telling ND,VAN DER Laan G,Lloyd JR,Hitchcock AP,Wang J,Pattrick RA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfossils belonging to the 1.88-billion-year-old 'Gunflint-biota' are preserved as carbonaceous and hematitic filaments and spheres that are believed to represent ancient chemolithoautotrophic Fe(II) oxidizing bacteria that grew above a chemocline where ferruginous seawater upwelled into shallow, oxygenated waters....

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Shapiro RS,Konhauser KO

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In aquatic habitats, micro-organisms successfully adhere to and mediate particles, thus changing the erosive response of fine sediments to hydrodynamic forcing by secreting glue-like extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). Because sediment dynamics is vital for many ecological and economic aspects of watersheds and ...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Gerbersdorf SU,Wieprecht S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification by atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased almost continuously since the last glacial maximum (LGM), 21,000 years ago. It is expected to impair tropical reef development, but effects on reefs at the present day and in the recent past have proved difficult to evaluate. We present evidence that acid...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Riding R,Liang L,Braga JC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reworked and fluidized fine-grained deposits in energetic settings are a major modern-day feature of river deltas and estuaries. Similar environments were probably settings for microbial evolution on the early Earth. These sedimentary systems act as efficient biogeochemical reactors with high bacterial phylogenetic di...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Aller JY,Aller RC,Kemp PF,Chistoserdov AY,Madrid VM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition of the oceans and of its biota have influenced each other through Earth's history. Of all the biologically essential elements, nitrogen is the only one whose seawater concentration is clearly controlled biologically; this is presumably the main reason why the stoichiometry of nitrogen (defined as its m...

journal_title：Geobiology

authors： Morel FM

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00