The Structure and Function of Aquatic Microbial Communities

ISBN-13: 9783030167738 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 351 str.

Christon J. Hurst

Spis treści

Chapter  1: “Understanding Aquatic Microbial Communities”

Author: Christon J. Hurst

 

Chapter  2: “Relationship between lifestyle and structure of bacterial communities and their functionality in aquatic systems”

Authors: Luca Zoccarato and Hans Peter Grossart

 

Chapter  3: “Biofilms: besieged cities or thriving ports?”

Authors: Otini Kroukamp, Elanna Bester and Gideon M. Wolfaardt

 

Chapter  4: “Complex structure but simple function in microbial mats from Antarctic Lakes”

Authors: Ian Hawes, Dawn Sumner and Anne Jungblut

Chapter  5: “Fungal decomposers in freshwater environments”

Authors: Vladislav Gulis, Rong Su and Kevin A. Kuehn

 

Chapter  6: “The Ecology of Methanogenic Archaea in a Nutrient Impacted Wetland”

Authors: Andrew Ogram, Hee-Sung Bae, and Ashvini Chauhan

 

Chapter  7: “Briefly Summarizing our Understanding of Vibrio cholerae and the Disease Cholera”

Author: Christon J. Hurst

 

Chapter  8: “Options for providing microbiologically safe drinking water”

Author: Christon J. Hurst

 

Chapter  9: “Microbiome of drinking water distribution systems”

Authors: Laurence Mathieu, Tony Paris and Jean-Claude Block

 

Chapter 10: “Isolation and Cultivation of Bacteria”

Authors: Martin W. Hahn, Ulrike Koll and Johanna Schmidt

 

O autorze

​Christon J. Hurst

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 

and 

Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Valle, Colombia

e-mail: christonjhurst@fuse.net

Blurb

This book discusses how aquatic microbial communities develop interactive metabolic coordination both within and between species to optimize their energetics. It explains that microbial community structuration often includes functional stratification among a multitude of organisms that variously exist either suspended in the water, lodged in sediments, or bound to one another as biofilms on solid surfaces.  The authors describe techniques that can be used for preparing and distributing microbiologically safe drinking water, which presents the challenge of successfully removing the pathogenic members of the aquatic microbial community and then safely delivering that water to consumers.  Drinking water distribution systems have their own microbial ecology, which we must both understand and control in order to maintain the safety of the water supply.  Since studying aquatic microorganisms often entails identifying them, the book also discusses techniques for successfully isolating and cultivating bacteria. As such, it appeals to microbiologists, microbial ecologists and water quality scientists.