Not exact matches
Large buoyant particles dominated by
cyanobacterial colonies harbor distinct bacterial communities
from small suspended particles and free ‐ living bacteria in the water column — Limei Shi — Microbiology Open
But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic
cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses
from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).
These research results demonstrate the potential of using
cyanobacterial catalyzed «whitings» as a method to sequester CO2
from the atmosphere.
This will allow immediate leverage of the low cost of natural gas, along with easy conversion to light oils (free of «corrosive components») generated by
cyanobacterial processes (such as Joule Unlimited's), or methane
from conversion of solar / electrolytic hydrogen and atmospheric CO2 when either / both of those processes become cost - competitive.
In the case of the
cyanobacterial mat - covered polygonal ponds on Bylot Island, the negative CO2 flux most likely resulted
from high photosynthetic rates in the mats, and the modern dates for CH4 suggest that abundant labile compounds coming
from a modern autochthonous pool could be the main C supply for microbial activity, including methanogenesis.