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Bacterial Biogeochemistry, Third Edition focuses on bacterial metabolism and its relevance to the environment, including the decomposition of soil, food chains, nitrogen fixati… Read more
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Chapter 1. Bacterial Metabolism
1.1 General Considerations: Functional Properties of Bacteria
1.2 Bacterial Metabolism
1.3 Dissimilatory Metabolism
1.4 Assimilatory Metabolism
1.5 Bioenergetics of Microbial Metabolism
Chapter 2. Transport Mechanisms
2.1 Physical Transport Mechanisms
2.2 Bacterial Motility and Sensory Motile Behaviour
Chapter 3. Degradation of Organic Polymers and Hydrocarbons
3.1 Substrates and the Efficiency of Degradation
3.2 Hydrolytic Enzymes
3.3 Mineral Nutrients and Decomposition Rates of Plant Derived Detritus
3.4 Humic Material and Hydrocarbons
Chapter 4. Comparison of Element Cycles
Chapter 5. The Water Column
5.1 The Composition of Planktonic Prokaryote Communities
5.2 Organic Matter: Composition, Origin and Turnover
5.3 Suspended Particles: Formation and Coupling Between Plankton and Sediments
5.4 Bacteria and Cycling of N and P
5.5 The Fate of Bacterial Cells
5.6 Motile Chemosensory Behaviour
5.7 Stratified Water Columns
Chapter 6. Biogeochemical Cycling in Soils
6.1 Soil Water as a Master Variable for Biogeochemical Cycling
6.2 Water Stress Physiology
6.3 Responses to Plant Organic Matter
6.4 Responses of Soil Biogeochemistry to Disturbance and Change
Chapter 7. Aquatic Sediments
7.1 Vertical Zonation, Vertical Transport, and Mixing
7.2 Element Cycling in Sediments
7.3 Sediments in the Light
7.4 Microbial Mats
Chapter 8. Microbial Biogeochemistry and Extreme Environments
8.1 Microbial Biology and Extreme Environments: An Overview
8.2 Biogeochemistry and Extreme Environments
8.3 Hypersaline Microbial Mats as Model Extreme Environments
8.4 Sub-Surface Environments as Extreme Systems
8.5 Thermophiles and Hyperthermophiles in Extreme Environments
8.6 Additional Considerations
Chapter 9. Symbiotic Systems
9.1 Symbiotic Polymer Degradation
9.2 Symbiotic N2 Fixation
9.3 Autotrophic Bacteria as Symbionts
Chapter 10. Microbial Biogeochemical Cycling and the Atmosphere
10.1 The Atmosphere as an Elemental Reservoir
10.2 Atmospheric Structure and Evolution
10.3 Synopsis of Trace Gas Biogeochemistry and Linkages to Climate Change
10.4 Trace Gas Dynamics and Climate Change: An Analysis of Methane Production and Consumption
Chapter 11. Origins and Evolution of Biogeochemical Cycles
11.1 Biogeochemical Cycles and Thermodynamics
11.2 Pre-Biotic Earth and Mineral Cycles
11.3 The Earliest Life and its Origin
11.4 Precambrian Life and Precambrian Biogeochemical Cycling
APPENDIX 1. Thermodynamics and Calculation of Energy Yields of Metabolic Processes
APPENDIX 2. Phylogeny and Function in Biogeochemical Cycles
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