sulphuretumsulfuretumn.
Ecol.
An ecological community of organisms, mainly consisting of sulphur bacteria, which metabolizes sulphur compounds in a closed subcycle of the larger environmental sulphur cycle.
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colonist1839
benthos1891
land form1897
heterotroph1900
autotroph1901
epibenthos1902
specialist1902
microaerophile1903
nitrifier1903
consumer1904
nitrogen fixer1904
producer1904
indicator1906
psychrophile1906
thermophil1909
sulphuretum1925
influent1926
halobiont1928
halophile1928
mesophile1928
oligosaprobe1931
saprobe1932
eurytope1938
stenotope1938
photoautotroph1939
chemoautotroph1943
prototroph1946
mixotrophy1948
chemolithoautotroph1949
auxotroph1950
chemoheterotroph1951
chemoorganotroph1953
chemolithotroph1955
chemotroph1958
osmophile1961
psychrotroph1963
saprotroph1963
generalist1964
opportunist1967
cryophile1970
1925 L. G. M. Baas-Becking in Ann. Bot. XXXIX. 615 The natural ecological community of these [sulphur] bacteria is a miniature cycle in itself, and will be called a sulphuretum.
1967 New Scientist 9 Nov. 333/2 One such ecosystem is known as the sulfuretum, based primarily on the sulphur bacteria and essentially anaerobic.
1967 New Scientist 9 Nov. 333/2 Palaeochemical evidence, based on fractionation of the sulphur isotopes, has shown that sulfureta were active at least 2 × 109 years ago.
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