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Microbial Communities

Functional Versus Structural Approaches

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Heribert Insam

    1. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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  2. Andrea Rangger

    1. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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  • This book focuses mainly on methods, their standardization and the statistical handling of the data.

  • It gives an overview of techniques and methods necessary in the field of microbial ecology of terrestrial habitats

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Relationship between Functional Diversity and Genetic Diversity in Complex Microbial Communities

    • Bryan S. Griffiths, Karl Ritz, Ronald E. Wheatley
    Pages 1-9

  3. Use of Molecular Probing to Assess Microbial Activities in Natural Ecosystems

    • Jan C. Gottschal, Wim G. Meijer, Yasuhiro Oda
    Pages 10-18

  4. Phenetic and Genetic Analyses of Bacterial Populations in Fermented Food and Environmental Samples

    • Henk W van Verseveld, Wilfred F M Röling, Diman van Rossum, Anniet M Laverman, Stef van Dijck, Martin Braster et al.
    Pages 19-36

  5. Comparison of Biolog and Phospholipid Fatty Acid Patterns to Detect Changes in Microbial Community

    • Ansa Palojärvi, S. Sharma, A. Rangger, M. von Lützow, H. Insam
    Pages 37-48

  6. Combined Application of Biolog and MIS/SHERLOCK for Identifying Bacterial Isolates from Hydrocarbon-polluted Argentinian Soils

    • Lothar Wünsche, C. Härtig, H. O. Pucci, W. Babel
    Pages 49-56

  7. Diversity of Anthropogenically Influenced or Disturbed Soil Microbial Communities

    • Endre Laczko, A. Rudaz, M. Aragno
    Pages 57-67

  8. Impact of Fertilizers on the Humus Layer Microbial Community of Scots Pine Stands Growing Along a Gradient of Heavy Metal Pollution

    • Hannu Fritze, Taina Pennanen, Pekka Vanhala
    Pages 68-83

  9. Disturbances and their Influence on Substrate Utilization Patterns in Soil Microbial Communities

    • Michael V. Gorlenko, T. N. Majorova, P. A. Kozhevin
    Pages 84-93

  10. Evaluation of Remediation by Community-Level Physiological Profiles

    • R. Michael Lehman, Seán P. O’Connell, Jay L. Garland, Frederick S. Colwell
    Pages 94-108

  11. Carbon Source Utilization by Microbial Communities in Soils under Organic and Conventional Farming Practice

    • Andreas Flieβbach, Paul Mäder
    Pages 109-120

  12. Characterization of Microbial Communities in Agroecosystems

    • Ann C. Kennedy, Virginia L. Gewin
    Pages 121-131

  13. Different Carbon Source Utilization Profiles of Four Tropical Soils from Ethiopia

    • Shobha Sharma, Alessandro Piccolo, Heribert Insam
    Pages 132-139

  14. Fallow Age Influences Microbial Functional Abilities, Soil Properties and Plant Functional Groups

    • Shivcharn S. Dhillion
    Pages 140-148

  15. Substrate Utilization Patterns of Extractable and Non-Extractable Bacterial Fractions in Neutral and Acidic Beech Forest Soils

    • Silke Kreitz, Traute-Heidi Anderson
    Pages 149-160

  16. Biolog Metabolic Fingerprints for Clustering Marine Oligotrophic Bacteria from Polar Regions

    • Tjhing Lok Tan
    Pages 161-170

  17. The Influence of Microbial Community Structure and Function on Community-Level Physiological Profiles

    • Jay L. Garland, K. L. Cook, C. A. Loader, B. A. Hungate
    Pages 171-183

  18. Strain and Function Stability in Gnotobiotic Reactors

    • Aaron L. Mills, Judith E. Bouma
    Pages 184-194

  19. Biolog Substrate Utilisation Assay for Metabolic Fingerprints of Soil Bacteria: Incubation Effects

    • Anne Winding, Niels Bohse Hendriksen
    Pages 195-205

  20. A Novel Approach for Assessing the Pattern of Catabolic Potential of Soil Microbial Communities

    • Bradley Degens
    Pages 206-214
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About this book

Research on decomposer communities of terrestrial ecosystems for a long time has focussed on microbial biomass and gross turnover parameters. Recently, more and more attempts are made to look beyond the biomass, and more specifically determine functions and populations on a smaller scale-in time and space. A multitude of techniques is being improved and developed. Garland and Mills (1991) triggered a series of publications on substrate utilization tests in the field of microbial ecology. Despite several promising results for different applications in different laboratories, many problems concerning the assay and the interpretation of results became evident. After individual discussions on the approach with colleagues from various laboratories we started to plan a workshop on the matter. The response on our first circular was extraordinary, and instead of a small workshop it became a meeting with almost 150 participants. The meeting was named 'Substrate use for characterization of microbial communities in terrestrial ecosystems' (SUBMECO) and was held in Innsbruck, Austria, from Oct. 16-18, 1996. The very focussed scope attracted enthusiastic advocates of the approach, and also serious critics. Some of the topics concerned improvements of current inoculation and incubation techniques, ranging from sample pre-treatment, inoculum density and incubation temperature to statistical data handling. New methods for calculating microbial diversity were proposed, as well as bootstrap methods that allow statistics with many variables on a relatively low number of replicates.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Heribert Insam, Andrea Rangger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Microbial Communities

  • Book Subtitle: Functional Versus Structural Approaches

  • Editors: Heribert Insam, Andrea Rangger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60694-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64511-2Published: 22 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60694-6Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 263

  • Topics: Microbiology, Ecology, Agriculture, Forestry

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