Environmental Microbiology

For microbiology and environmental microbiology courses, this leading textbook builds on the academic success of the previous edition by including a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of environmental microbiology as a discipline that has grown in scope and interest in recent years. From environmental science and microbial ecology to topics in molecular genetics, this edition relates environmental microbiology to the work of a variety of life science, ecology, and environmental science investigators.The authors and editors have taken the care to highlight links between environmental microbiology and topics important to our changing world such as bioterrorism and national security with sections on practical issues such as bioremediation, waterborne pathogens, microbial risk assessment, and environmental biotechnology.This book contains new chapters on: Urban Environmental Microbiology; Bacterial Communities in Natural Ecosystems; Global Change and Microbial Infectious Disease; Microorganisms and Bioterrorism; Extreme Environments (emphasizing the ecology of these environments); Aquatic Environments (now devoted to its own chapter- was combined with Extreme Environments); and, Updates to Methodologies: Nucleic Acid -Based Methods: micro arrays, phyloarrays, real-time PCR, metagomics, and comparative genomics; Physiological Methods: stable isotope fingerprinting and functional genomics and proteomics-based approaches; Microscopic Techniques: FISH (fluorescent in situ hybridization) and atomic force microscopy; Cultural Methods: new approaches to enhanced cultivation of environmental bacteria; and, Environmental Sample Collection and Processing: added section on air sampling.

ISBN 0123705193   Pages 624 ISBN13 9780123705198 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc   Weight (grammes) 2059 Imprint Academic Press Inc   Published in San Diego Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780124975705 Publication date 24 Sep 2008   Height (mm) 279 Library of Congress QR100   Width (mm) 216 DEWEY 579.17   Spine width (mm) 34 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

Pt. I		Review of Basic Microbiological Concepts
1		Introduction to Environmental Microbiology by Raina M. Maier and Ian L. Pepper and Charles P. Gerba		3
2		Microorganisms by Timberley M. Roane and Kelly A. Reynolds and Raina M. Maier and Ian L. Pepper		10
3		Bacterial Growth by Raina M. Maier		38
Pt. II		Microbial Environments
4		Earth Environments by Raina M. Maier and Ian L. Pepper		57
5		Aeromicrobiology by Ian L. Pepper and Scot E. Dowd		83
6		Aquatic Environments by Todd R. Sandrin and Scot E. Dowd and David C. Herman and Raina M. Maier		103
7		Extreme Environments by Raina M. Maier		124
Pt. III		Detection, Enumeration, and Indentification
8		Environmental Sample Collection & Processing by Ian L. Pepper and Charles P. Gerba and Raina M. Maier		137
9		Microscopic Techniques by Timberley Roane and Ian L. Pepper and Raina M. Maier		157
10		Cultural Methods by Ian L. Pepper and Charles P. Gerba		173
11		Physiological Methods by Todd R. Sandrin and David C. Herman and Raina M. Maier		191
12		Immunological Methods by Scot E. Dowd and Marilyn J. Halonen and Raina M. Maier		225
13		Nucleic Acid-Based Methods of Analysis by Deborah T. Newby and Elizabeth M. Marlowe and Raina M. Maier		243
Pt. IV		Microbial Communication, Activities, and Interactions With Environment and Nutrient Cycling
14		Biogeochemical Cycling by Raina M. Maier		287
15		Consequences of Biogeochemical Cycles Gone Wild by David C. Herman and Raina M. Maier		319
16		Microbial Communication: Bacteria/Bacteria and Bacteria/Host by Leland S. Pierson III and Raina M. Maier and Ian L. Pepper		335
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