Processes in Microbial Ecology 2nd Edition Dave Kirchman

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198789416
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198789413
• Author(s): Dave Kirchman

This second edition has been fully revised, restructured, and updated while remaining concise and accessible. It discusses the major processes carried out by viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and other protists – the microbes – in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. The focus is on biogeochemical processes, starting with primary production and the initial fixation of carbon into cellular biomass, before exploring how that carbon is degraded in both oxygen-rich (oxic) and oxygen-deficient (anoxic) environments. These processes are in turn affected by ecological interactions, including competition for limiting nutrients, viral lysis, and predation by various protists in soils and aquatic habitats. The book neatly connects processes occurring at the micron scale to events happening at the global scale, including the carbon cycle and its connection to climate change issues. A final chapter is devoted to symbiosis and other relationships between microbes and larger organisms. Microbes have huge impacts not only on biogeochemical cycles, but also on the ecology and evolution of more complex forms of life, including humans.

Table contents:

1:Introduction
2:Elements, biochemicals, and structures of microbes
3:The physical-chemical environment of microbes
4:Community structure of microbes in natural environments
5:Genomes and meta-omics for microbes
6:Microbial primary production and phototrophy
7:Degradation of organic matter
8:Microbial growth, biomass production, and controls
9:Predation and protists
10:The ecology of viruses
11:Processes in anoxic environments
12:The nitrogen cycle
13:Introduction to geomicrobiology
14:Symbioses and microbes
References
Index

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