Compositional Heterogeneity Structures Microbial Microhabitats across Distinct Mineral Substrates
Federica Calabrese, Peter Schroedl, Nathan Hadland…·Jeffrey J. Marlow
The paper investigates how microbial biomass correlates with mineralogical heterogeneity in rock samples using Raman microspectroscopy and identifies three key patterns in biomass and mineral spectral relationships.