Micro-organisms and Earth SystemsThere is growing awareness that important environmental transformations are catalysed, mediated and influenced by microorganisms, and geomicrobiology can be defined as the influence of microorganisms on geologic processes. This is probably the most rapidly growing area of microbiology at present, combining environmental and molecular microbiology together with significant areas of mineralogy, geochemistry and hydrology. This volume focuses on the function of microorganisms in the environment and their influence on 'global' processes. It will include state-of-the art approaches to visualisation, culture and identification, community interactions and gene transfer, and diversity studies in relation to key processes. This overview for researchers and graduate students will represent environmental microbiology in its broadest sense and help to promote exciting collaborations between microbiologists and those in complementary physical and chemical disciplines. |
Contents
A Warren | 11 |
Gray and I M Head | 35 |
W Hopkins B Elberling L G Greenfield E G Gregorich P Novis | 71 |
R Phoenix A A Korenevsky V R F Matias and T J Beveridge | 85 |
J Coombs and T Barkay | 109 |
G Benning V R Phoenix and B W Mountain | 131 |
K H Nealson and R Popa | 151 |
B Nedwell | 173 |
Gadd M Fomina and E P Burford | 201 |
K Pedersen | 233 |
Leegood R C | 247 |
Lloyd J | 273 |
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16S rRNA gene acceptor Achromatium species acid activity algae anaerobic Antarctic Appl Environ Microbiol archaea Bacteriol bacterium Beggiatoa Beggiatoa species benthic Beveridge biofilms biogeochemical biological biomass biominerals carbon cell wall chemical coastal zone concentrations cyanobacteria cycling denitrification diversity dry valleys ecological ecosystems electron energy environmental enzymes estuaries eukaryotes FEMS Microbiol filamentous formation freshwater function fungal fungi Gadd Garwood Valley genetic genome Geobacter geochemical geomicrobiology giant sulfur bacteria Gram-positive groups growth hydrated inorganic interactions isotope Jørgensen Lovley mangrove Mar Ecol Prog marine mats mechanism membrane metabolism metal methane methanogens micro-organisms microbial communities Microbiology minerals molecular Nedwell Nelson nitrate nitrogen nutrient ocean organic matter oxidation oxygen phylogenetic plasmid precipitation primary production processes prokaryotes psychrophilic rates reactions reactive redox regions rock role rRNA sediments sequence sheath Shewanella silica silicification soil strains structure studies substrate subsurface sulfate reduction sulfate-reducing sulfate-reducing bacteria sulfide surface temperature Thiomargarita Thioploca Thiothrix uptake