Abstract
Hot springs are inhibited primarily by prokaryotes and provide habitats where nearly monospecific populations of phototrophs occur in a recognizable pattern. There is a great diversity of hot springs with regard to chemistry, but within the array, some species of almost all groups of photosynthetic bacteria may be found.
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Castenhotz, R.W. (1988). The Green Sulfur and Nonsulfur Bacteria of Hot Springs. In: Olson, J.M., Ormerod, J.G., Amesz, J., Stackebrandt, E., Trüper, H.G. (eds) Green Photosynthetic Bacteria. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1021-1_30
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