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- A valuable source of information for scientists in soil and geological sciences, microbiology, plant physiology, environmental engineering and biotechnology
- With contributions written by experts from academia and industry
- Provides an overview of this new fields
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Soil Biology (SOILBIOL, volume 39)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Over the past 4 billion years, microorganisms have contributed to shaping the earth and making it more habitable for higher forms of life. They are remarkable in their metabolic diversity and their ability to harvest energy from oxidation and reduction reactions. Research on these microbiological processes has led to the newly evolving fields of geomicrobiology and biogeochemistry, linking the geosphere and the biosphere.
This volume of the Soil Biology series provides an overview of the biogeochemical processes and the microorganisms involved, with an emphasis on the industrial applications. Topics treated include aspects such as bioremediation of contaminated environments, biomining, biotechnological applications of extremophiles, subsurface petroleum microbiology, enhanced oil recovery using microbes and their products, metal extraction from soil, soil elemental cycling and plant nutrition.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Chemistry & Biology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Nagina Parmar
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Lystek International Inc., Cambridge, Canada
Ajay Singh
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry
Editors: Nagina Parmar, Ajay Singh
Series Title: Soil Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41837-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-41836-5Published: 08 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50972-2Published: 11 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-41837-2Published: 09 December 2013
Series ISSN: 1613-3382
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4831
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 302
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biogeosciences, Microbiology, Applied Microbiology