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endolithic

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endolithic [¦en·də¦lith·ik]
(ecology)
Living within rocks, as certain algae and coral.


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Most types of hard substrata provide a dead surface that is mainly populated by encrusting and endolithic colonizers.
Ecologically relevant papers report on the production of pHCA and pHS from glucose, the roles shewanella serve in aquatic environments, and endolithic microbial ecosystems as models for macroecological systems.
In contrast to possible worm borings in shells, Lower Ordovician endolithic microborings of algal, fungal, and sponge origin are well known from northern Poland (Podhalanska 1984), and the Siljan District of Sweden (Hessland 1949; Lindstrom 1979).
 
 
 
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