Abstract
Algobacterial communities or biofilms are among factors determining the evolution of biosphere. The role they had played can be quantitatively assessed from the thickness of sedimentary rocks composed with the involvement of them. At present biofilms also perform an active role in functioning of water bodies. The question of interest is whether it is possible to quantitatively estimate this role for a specific water body. The frank answer would be “no” rather than “yes”. By now the notion about the inner structure of different biofilms and processes going in them has been drawn in plain outline as other sections of this book demonstrate. This allows to make more or less exact quantitative assessment of potential functional possibilities of the various types of biofilms. Much more incomplete is today’s understanding of what characteristics and in what way may account for realization of these possibilities in a specific water body. In its turn, this insufficiency of the knowledge obstructs quantitative assessment of ecological significance of biofilms. Let us examine in brief some possible approaches to resolving of this problem.
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Shadrin, N.V. (2003). Is it Possible to Quantitatively Assess the Role of Algobacterial Films in a Water Body?. In: Krumbein, W.E., Paterson, D.M., Zavarzin, G.A. (eds) Fossil and Recent Biofilms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0193-8_24
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