Microbial Communities: Functional Versus Structural Approaches

ISBN-13: 9783642645112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 263 str.

Heribert Insam; Andrea Rangger

Opis

The study of microbial communities in terrestrial habitats requires a great variety of different techniques. This book offers a good overview of substrate utilization tests, their standardization and the handling of the resulting data. It also covers a wide range of potential applications, including agricultural, ecological (environmental impact and global change) and soil remediation aspects. Structural approaches are also presented.

Spis treści

Relationship between Functional Diversity and Genetic Diversity in Complex Microbial Communities - Use of Molecular Probing to Assess Microbial Activities in Natural Ecosystems -Phenetic and Genetic analyses of Bacterial Populations in Fermented Food and Environmental Samples - Comparison of Biolog and Phospholipid Fatty Acid Patterns to Detect Changes in Microbial Community - Combined Application of Biolog and MIS/SHERLOCK for Identifying Bacterial Isolates from Hydrocarbon-polluted Argentinian Soils - Diversity of Anthropogenically Influenced or Disturbed Soil Microbial Communities - Impact of Fertilizers on the Humus Layer Microbial Community of Scots Pine Stands Growing Along a Gradient of Heavy Metal Pollution - Disturbances and their Influence on Substrate Utilization Patterns in Soil Microbial Communities - Evaluation of Remediation by Community-Level Physiological Profiles - Carbon Source Utilization by Microbial Communities in Soils under Organic and Conventional Farming Practice - Characterization of Microbial Communities in Agroecosystems - Different Carbon Source Utilization Profiles of Four Tropical Soils from Ethiopia - Fallow Age Influences Microbial Functional Abilities, Soil Properties and Plant Functional Groups - Substrate Utilization Patterns of Extractable and Non-Extractable Bacterial Fractions in Neutral and Acidic Beech Forest Soils - Biolog Metabolic Fingerprints for Clustering Marine Oligotrophic Bacteria from Polar Regions - The Influence of Microbial Community Structure and Function on Community-Level Physiological Profiles - Strain and Function Stability in Gnotobiotic Reactors - Biolog Substrate Utilisation Assay for Metabolic Fingerprints of Soil Bacteria: Incubation Effects - A novel Approach for assessing the Pattern of Catabolic Potential of Soil Microbial Communities - Chirality is a Factor in Substrate Utilization Assays - Analysis of the Bacterial Community according to Colony Development on Solid Medium - The Complexity of the Flux of Natural Substrates in Soils: A Freeze-thaw can Increase the Formation of Ischemic or Anaerobic Microsites - Carbon Transformations During Substrate Utilization by the Microbial Community in an Organic Soil: A Solid-State NMR Study - Ammonification of Amino Acids in Field, Grassland and Forest Soils - A New Set of Substrates Proposed for Community Characterization in Environmental Samples - Subject Index