Quantification of microbial mat response to physical disruption in siliciclastic sediments

Microbially-colonized sediments tend to be more resistant to erosional events than mostly abiotic sediments. However, the effect of complex microbial associations, such as microbial mats over sediments and the protection they offer, has not been extensively explored partly due to the difficulty that studies considering the consortia in toto pose. This difficulty prompts the gathering of an approximation to rheological properties of...