#bacterialmats — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bacterialmats, aggregated by home.social.
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Seascapes of the #DeepSea https://oceanbites.org/seascapes-of-the-deep-sea/
Seascape #ecology in the vicinity of a Blake Ridge cold seep: Kellie Johnson et al. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1198226/full
"The #ColdSeep ecosystem included #mussels, #clams, #tubeworms, and #BacterialMats capable of harnessing energy from the methane and sulfur-rich environment through symbiosis... Outside the cold seep, #SeaStars, #urchins, and #SeaCucumbers dominated. The seep also seemed to be a hotspot for certain #predators such as #octopus"
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Some #Caribbean #parrotfishes find benthic #CyanobacterialMats particularly tasty https://oceanbites.org/some-caribbean-parrotfishes-find-benthic-cyanobacterial-mats-particularly-tasty/
Preferential consumption of benthic cyanobacterial mats by Caribbean parrotfishes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-023-02404-5
"this research shows that #parrotfish grazing may help control the overgrowth of #benthic #cyanobacteria mats in #reefs, providing further support that parrotfishes are critical components of #reef ecosystems"