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Relative to biological demands, marine waters are often depleted in combined forms of nitrogen (Dugdale 1967). As such, the development of microbial mats in coastal marine environments is dependent on the fixation of atmospheric dinitrogen as the dominant source of biologically available N.
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Stal, L.J., Paerl, H.W., Bebout, B., Villbrandt, M. (1994). Heterocystous versus non-heterocystous cyanobacteria in microbial mats. In: Stal, L.J., Caumette, P. (eds) Microbial Mats. NATO ASI Series, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78991-5_41
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