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. 2022 Aug 11;10:942771. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.942771

TABLE 2.

Comparison between elements in cultivated cyanobacteria consortium, microbial mats from soda lakes (Cariboo Plateau, British Columbia) and literature values.

Elements Cyanobacterial consortium cultivated in lab environment Microbial mats collected from soda lakes Literature values a
Day 3 Day 4 DL-M PL-M GEL-M LC-M
2014 2017 2014 2017 2014 2017 2014 2017
C (g/kg) 543.9 ± 2.6 503.0 ± 9.0 303.0 395.3 81.0 262.0 1288.12 528.0 412.0 364.9 175–650
H (g/kg) 72.6 ± 13.5 79.7 ± 31.2 43.8 55.7 11.2 34.2 192.6 73.4 54.1 51.0 ND
N (g/kg) 114.0 ± 17.45 85.2 ± 5.3 15.6 35.6 10.1 30.3 91.0 61.1 25.5 31.1 50–105
Ca (g/kg) 1.1 ± 0.4 1.5 ± 1.2 26.9 33.6 79.9 20.5 10.9 91.7 1.9 4.2 3–21
K (g/kg) 21.4 ± 3.6 14.9 ± 3.1 6.2 8.8 8.4 17.2 7.9 20.1 7.8 5.8 6–21
Mg (g/kg) 5.1 ± 0.1 4.2 ± 0.6 74.5 89.8 75.8 40.9 31.5 322.3 5.0 10.3 1–37
Na (g/kg) 63.7 ± 20.1 91.5 ± 10.1 251.4 110.4 178.1 135.3 129.6 281.8 71.6 51.9 7–321
P (g/kg) 13.3 ± 5.7 9.7 ± 3.1 1.4 4.5 6.3 17.6 3.0 11.0 1.0 2.3 0.9–30
S (g/kg) 8.1 ± 0.9 6.5 ± 1.2 5.7 9.3 36.1 10.7 81.4 18.8 21.6 9.2 4–14
Cu (mg/kg) 72.2 ± 0.4 14.7 ± 4.8 90.7 22.6 343.9 39.3 7.1 38.5 19.4 25.4 1–650
Mn (mg/kg) 88.2 ± 20.2 125.3 ± 55.3 313.9 385.1 1873.9 389.2 98.1 765.6 46.5 121.6 17–592
Zn (mg/kg) 49.5 ± 14.0 41.6 ± 9.2 51.7 50.1 212.6 51.6 16.3 75.5 14.8 30.3 2–64
Ni (mg/kg) 7.0 ± 5.7 7.1 ± 3.2 26.3 38.9 180.2 49.4 8.3 60.5 7.9 18.1 1–3
Co (mg/kg) 2.9 ± 0.9 5.9 ± 4.2 8.4 10.0 69.0 14.5 2.3 16.7 1.8 4.4 ND
Fe (mg/kg) 2.3 ± 0.5 2.9 ± 1.8 ND ND ND ND ND ND ND ND 83–7,000

Deer Lake Microbial Mat (DL-M), Probe Lake Microbial Mat (PL-M), Goodenough Lake Microbial Mat (GEL-M) and Last Chance Lake Microbial Mat (LC-M). ND is no data.