The Spatial Distribution of Microbes in the Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Rima B. Franklin, Aaron L. Mills

   Pages 1-30

3. Statistical Analysis Of Spatial Structure In Microbial Communities

   • Rima B. Franklin, Aaron L. Mills

   Pages 31-60

4. Bacterial Interactions At The Microscale – Linking Habitat To Function In Soil

   • Naoise Nunan, Iain M. Young, John W. Crawford, Karl Ritz

   Pages 61-85

5. Spatial Distribution Of Bacteria At The Microscale In Soil

   • Arnaud Deschesne, Céline Pallud, Geneviève L. Grundmann

   Pages 87-107

6. Analysis Of Spatial Patterns Of Rhizoplane Colonization

   • Guy R. Knudsen, Louise-Marie Dandurand

   Pages 109-133

7. Microbial Distributions And Their Potential Controlling Factors In Terrestrial Subsurface Environments

   • R. Michael Lehman

   Pages 135-178

8. Spatial Organisation Of Soil Fungi

   • Karl Ritz

   Pages 179-202

9. Spatial Heterogeneity Of Planktonic Microorganisms In Aquatic Systems

   • Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, Anas Ghadouani

   Pages 203-310

10. The Interrelationship Between The Spatial Distribution Of Microorganisms And Vegetation In Forest Soils

    • Sherry J. Morris, William J. Dress

    Pages 311-329

11. Back Matter

    Pages 331-333

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In my first microbiology class in 1968, Richard Wodzinki opened his first lecture with “Wodzinski’s Laws of Bacteriology. ” Those laws were (1) Bacteria are very very small, (2) Bacteria are our friends, and (3) Bacteria always have the last word. These simple statements motivated a career of curiosity, and started me on a wild ride of discovery with my miniscule colleagues. The realization that an entity so tiny could mediate critical ecological p- cesses observed across scales of kilometers begs for an explanation of how populations and communities are distributed within those large spaces. How big is a microbial community? Where does one stop and another start? Are there rules of organization of the communities into spatially discrete patches, and can those patches be correlated with observed processes and process rates? Over the years I have added what I tell my classes are “Mills’ Corrolaries to Wodzinski’s Laws. ” With respect to the topic of this volume, the corollaries to the first law are: (1a) But there are a whole lot of them, and (1b) They can grow very very fast. Again, distribution in space and time is a central theme, and it has motivated much of my effort over the last 30 years.

• A. Spatial Patterns
• AgroMicro
• B. Microbial Communitites
• C. Bacterial Distribution
• D. Geostatistics
• Habitat
• Vegetation
• distribution
• ecology
• ecosystem
• ecosystem processes
• environment
• microbe
• microorganism
• plankton

• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

  Rima B. Franklin

• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

  Aaron L. Mills

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