Cyanobacterium in a microhabitat
by Vincent Felde, University of Hannover, Germany, Hannover, Germany
Cyanobacterium (Microcoleus) living in a microhabitat between two soil crust lichens (Collema). The higher content of fines that is trapped by the high surface roughness of the lichens causes a higher water holding capacity, while at the same time, the lichens protect the cyanobacterium from direct sunlight. Thin section of a biological soil crust from the NW Negev Desert, Israel.
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- Asia (1121)
- Western Asia (316)
- Israel (46)
- Exact location (34.3784 E, 30.9443 N)
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VHX D600
Taken on 26
October
2013
Submitted on 9 February 2015
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
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Vincent Felde (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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