Interaction between lithification and resource availability in the microbialites of Río Mesquites, Cuatro Ciénegas, México

Agriculture & Biology

• adsorption 21%
• autotrophs 27%
• bacterial communities 24%
• Bacteroidetes 28%
• bioavailability 22%
• biomass production 20%
• calcium 14%
• coprecipitation 33%
• Cyanobacteria 21%
• ecosystem respiration 37%
• gross primary productivity 35%
• microbial biomass 25%
• microbial communities 68%
• microorganisms 31%
• net primary productivity 30%
• nitrogen 13%
• organic carbon 51%
• phosphates 16%
• phosphorus 35%
• Proteobacteria 25%
• uptake mechanisms 31%
• water 9%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• accumulation rate 12%
• adsorption 8%
• bioavailability 11%
• biological uptake 17%
• biomass 7%
• calcium 9%
• community composition 10%
• cyanobacterium 10%
• ecosystem 6%
• effect 8%
• lithification 97%
• microbial community 29%
• microbialite 100%
• net primary production 14%
• nitrogen 7%
• organic carbon 18%
• phosphate 9%
• phosphorus 17%
• primary production 11%
• rate 11%
• resource 13%
• resource availability 83%
• respiration 10%
• water 3%