576.192/F.A

AQUATIC Microbiology

An ecological approach

Edited by

Timothy Edgcumbe Ford

Contents

1.  A perspective on the ecology of aquatic microbes
2. The advances and limitations of methodology
3. Distribution and activity of microorganisms in lakes: effects of physical processes
4. Microbial biogeochemical activities in lakes: stratification and eutrophication
5. The pelagic microbial food web of oligotrophic lakes
6. Attached microbial communities in rivers
7. Biogeochemistry of dissolved organic carbon entering streams
8. Groundwater microbiology: subsurface ecosystem processes
9. Wetland and swamp microbiology
10. Microbial processes in salt-marsh sediments
11. Bacterial production in estuaries
12. Growth limitation and starvation of bacteria
13. Particulate detritus and bacteria in marine environments
14. Interaction of nitrogen and carbon cycles in the marine environment
15. Microbial life in extreme environments
16. The air-water interface as an extreme environment
17. Microbial ecology of sewage treatment
18. The microbial ecology of water distribution and outfall systems
19. Genetic stability of genetically engineered microorganisms in the aquatic environment

Prep./ Khaled Shrief
Manage./ Huda Hosney