Micro-organisms and Earth Systems: advances in geomicrobiology (Society for General Microbiology Symposia) - Hardcover

Lappin-Scott, Hilary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521862221 ISBN 13: 9780521862226

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

There 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.

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About the Authors

Hilary M. Lappin-Scott is Professor of Environmental Microbiology in the School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, UK.

Geoffrey Michael Gadd is Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Division of Environmental and Applied Biology in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, UK.

Kirk T. Semple is a Reader in the Department of Environmental Science at Lancaster University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521862221
• ISBN 13: 9780521862226
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Gadd Geoff, Semple Kirk