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Bacterial biogeochemistry : the ecophysiology of mineral cycling /

Bacterial Biogeochemistry, Third Edition focuses on bacterial metabolism and its relevance to the environment, including the decomposition of soil, food chains, nitrogen fixation, assimilation and reduction of carbon nitrogen and sulfur, and microbial symbiosis. The scope of the new edition has broa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fenchel, Tom
Otros Autores: Blackburn, T. Henry (Thomas Henry), 1933-, King, Gary (Gary M.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, Mass. : Academic Press/Elsevier, �2012.
Edición:3rd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bacterial Biogeochemistry
  • Copyright Page
  • Introduction
  • 1. Bacterial Metabolism
  • 1.1. General Considerations: Functional Properties of Bacteria
  • 1.2. Bacterial Metabolism
  • 1.3. Dissimilatory Metabolism
  • Fermentation
  • Respiration
  • Iron and Manganese Oxidizers
  • Anaerobic Respiration
  • Methanogenesis
  • Anaerobic Methane Oxidation
  • Phototrophy
  • 1.4. Assimilatory Metabolism
  • 1.5. Bioenergetics of Microbial Metabolism
  • Energetic Yields of Metabolic Processes
  • Energetics, YATP and Growth Yields
  • Bioenergetics and the Structure of Bacterial Communities
  • 2. Transport Mechanisms.
  • 2.1. Physical Transport MechanismsUptake and Excretion of Solutes from Bacterial Cells
  • Diffusion-Controlled Communities
  • Advection and Turbulence
  • 2.2. Bacterial Motility and Sensory Motile Behaviour
  • 3. Degradation of Organic Polymers and Hydrocarbons
  • 3.1. Substrates and the Efficiency of Degradation
  • 3.2. Hydrolytic Enzymes
  • 3.3. Mineral Nutrients and Decomposition Rates of Plant Derived Detritus
  • 3.4. Humic Material and Hydrocarbons
  • 4. Comparison of Element Cycles
  • 5. The Water Column
  • 5.1. The Composition of Planktonic Prokaryote Communities
  • Phototrophs
  • Heterotrophs and Chemolithotrophs.
  • 5.2. Organic Matter: Composition, Origin and Turnover
  • 5.3. Suspended Particles: Formation and Coupling Between Plankton and Sediments
  • 5.4. Bacteria and Cycling of N and P
  • 5.5. The Fate of Bacterial Cells
  • 5.6. Motile Chemosensory Behaviour
  • 5.7. Stratified Water Columns
  • 6. Biogeochemical Cycling in Soils
  • 6.1. Soil Water as a Master Variable for Biogeochemical Cycling
  • Physical Chemical Principles
  • 6.2. Water Stress Physiology
  • Interactions Among Soil Water Content, Water Potential and Biogeochemistry
  • 6.3. Responses to Plant Organic Matter.
  • 6.4. Responses of Soil Biogeochemistry to Disturbance and Change
  • 7. Aquatic Sediments
  • 7.1. Vertical Zonation, Vertical Transport, and Mixing
  • Vertical Transport Mechanisms in Sediments
  • The Fate of Sediment Bacteria
  • Sediments as Fuel Cells
  • 7.2. Element Cycling in Sediments
  • The Carbon Cycle
  • The Nitrogen Cycle
  • The Sulfur Cycle
  • Sediment Metal Cycling
  • Phosphate
  • 7.3. Sediments in the Light
  • 7.4. Microbial Mats
  • Cyanobacterial Mats
  • Mats Based on Colourless Sulfur Bacteria
  • Other Types of Bacterial Mats
  • 8. Microbial Biogeochemistry and Extreme Environments.
  • 8.1. Microbial Biology and Extreme Environments: An Overview
  • 8.2. Biogeochemistry and Extreme Environments
  • 8.3. Hypersaline Microbial Mats as Model Extreme Environments
  • 8.4. Sub-Surface Environments as Extreme Systems
  • 8.5. Thermophiles and Hyperthermophiles in Extreme Environments
  • 8.6. Additional Considerations
  • 9. Symbiotic Systems
  • 9.1. Symbiotic Polymer Degradation
  • Symbiotic Digestion in Mammals
  • Symbiotic Fermentation in Other Animals
  • 9.2. Symbiotic N2 Fixation
  • Symbiotic N2 Fixation in Legumes
  • Actinorhizal N2 Fixing Symbionts
  • Symbiosis with N2 Fixing Cyanobacteria.
  • 9.3. Autotrophic Bacteria as Symbionts.