Contribution of image analysis to the detection of endolithic microbial communities in limestones used in cultural heritage.
2009
Rogerio Candelera, Miguel A. | Miller, A. Z. | Sáiz-Jiménez, Cesáreo | Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (Portugal) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
3 pages, 3 figures, 12 references. Electronic Newsletter. CSIC Thematic Network on Cultural Heritage and Network on Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla, CSIC, Apartado de Correos 1052, 41080 Sevilla (Spain).
显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]Terrestrial and aquatic environments are inhabited by phototrophic microorganisms that include cyanobacteria, green algae and diatoms. These microorganisms have a global significance in the deterioration of cultural heritage stone materials emphasized by their photoautotrophic nature, which permits them to be primary colonizers of lithobiontic ecological niche (Golubic et al. 1981). They develop forming phototrophic biofilms which can be described as surface attached microbial communities driven by light energy with a clearly present photosynthesizing component (Roeselers et al. 2008). In such biofilms, microorganisms use structural irregularities of the stone material for their ATTACHMENT, modifying the stone surface structure.
显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Portugal, doctoral grant SFRH/BD/21481/2005; CSIC-FCT, project 2007PT0041 are acknowledged for funding. This is a TCP CSD2007-00058 paper.
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