Understanding terrestrial microbial communities

by Hurst, Christon J., (Christon James)

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Full title :Understanding terrestrial microbial communities / edited by Christon J. Hurst.

Summary

This book presents a summary of terrestrial microbial processes, which are a key factor in supporting healthy life on our planet. The authors explain how microorganisms maintain the soil ecosystem through recycling carbon and nitrogen and then provide insights into how soil microbiology processes integrate into ecosystem science, helping to achieve successful bioremediation as well as safe and effective operation of landfills, and enabling the design of composting processes that reduce the amount of waste that is placed in landfills. The book also explores the effect of human land use, including restoration on soil microbial communities and the response of wetland microbial communities to anthropogenic pollutants. Lastly it discusses the role of fungi in causing damaging, and often lethal, infectious diseases in plants and animals.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 405 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030107772, 3030107779, 9783030107765, 3030107760
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-10777-2
oclc:on1091894505
LC Classification:QR111
Dewey Decimal:579/.1757

Intro; Series Preface; Volume Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Carbon Cycle Implications of Soil Microbial Interactions; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Allocation Patterns; 1.2.1 Interaction-Mediated Phenotypic Plasticity; 1.2.1.1 Interaction Agents in the Soil Environment; 1.2.1.2 Soil Biofilms; 1.2.1.3 Growth and Dormancy; 1.3 Evolution of Traits with Carbon Cycling Consequences; 1.3.1 Horizontal Gene Transfer; 1.3.2 Cheaters; 1.3.3 Black Queen, Cross-Feeding, and Syntrophy; 1.4 Community Structure; 1.4.1 Community Composition Is Determined by Microbial Interactions

1.4.1.1 Spatially Defined Interactions1.4.1.2 Inhibition and Reduction of Niche Overlap; 1.4.1.3 Fungal Interactions; 1.4.2 Evolutionary Feedbacks on Carbon Cycling; 1.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of the Modern Nitrogen Cycle; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Processes Old and New; 2.2.1 Immobilization and Mobilization (Uptake and Mineralization); 2.2.2 Nitrification; 2.2.3 Nitrate Reduction; 2.2.3.1 Assimilatory Nitrate Reduction; 2.2.3.2 Denitrification; 2.2.3.3 Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction; 2.2.3.4 Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox)

2.2.4 Nitrogen Fixation2.2.4.1 Biological Nitrogen …