Book Description:
This new book presents the latest research in environmental microbiology which is area of interaction that studies the interaction of microorganisms with the environment. It includes the structure, activities and communal behaviour of microbial communities, microbial interactions and interactions with plants, animals and non-living environmental factors, population biology and clonal structure microbes and surfaces, adhesion and biofouling responses to environmental signals and stress factors growth and survival, modelling and theory development, microbial community genetics and evolutionary processes, microbial physiological, metabolic and structural diversity, pollution microbiology, extremophiles and life in extreme and unusual little-explored habitats, primary and secondary production, element cycles and biogeochemical processes and microbially-influenced global changes.

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Chapter 1 - Evaluation and Verification of Soil Remediation pp. 1-57
(Katalin Gruiz, Monika Molnar, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Dept. of Applied Biotechnology and Food Science, Budapest, Hungary, Eva Fenyvesi, Cyclolab Cyclodextrin R & D Laboratory Ltd., Budapest, Hungary)

Chapter 2 - Disinfection of Empty Animal Houses-Scientific Evidence for Applied Procedures pp. 59-98
(Kim Oren Gradel, Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg Hospital, Arhus Hospital, Denmark)

Chapter 3 - Natural Bacterial Biofilms in the Environment pp. 99-135
(Odile Tresse, UMR-INRA, Ecole Veterinaire de Nantes, France, Rutger de Wit, UMR-CNRS, Univ. Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Viviane Cassisa, LBCM EA, Univ. de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France)

Chapter 4 - Microbial and Chemical Assays to Determine the Origin of Faecal Pollution and the Presence of Waterborne Pathogens
pp. 137-166
(Ehlers MM, Kock MM, Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Univ. of Pretoria/National Health Laboratory Services, South Africa, Sundram A, Umgeni Water, Kwazula Natal, South Africa)

Chapter 5 - The Effects of Fine Scale Environmental Variation on Microbial Community Structure and Function in Aquatic Environments pp. 167-190
(Kurt A. Smart, the Univ. of Mississippi, Dept. of Biology, Shoemaker Hall, Univ., MS, Hsuanhua L. Smart, The Univ. of Mississippi, Dept. of Mathematics, Hume Hall, Univ., MS, Colin R. Jackson, The Univ. of Mississippi, Dept. of Biology, Shoemaker Hall, Univ., MS)

Chapter 6 - Changes of Marine Bacterial Populations in a Ship's Ballast Water and Sediment, and Application of Shock Pressures to Complete Killing of Vibrio Sp. Cells Isolated from Ballast Water pp. 191-212
(Haruo Mimura, Akihisa Abe, Hiroshi Ishida, Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan)

Chapter 7 - Biodiversity and Ecology of Eukaryotic Organisms in Extreme Acidic Environments, the Rio Tinto Case pp. 213-235
(Angeles Aguilera, Virginia Souza-Egipsy, Centro de Astrobiologia, Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, Spain, Ricardo Amils, Centro de Astrobiologia, Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Biologia Molecular, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

Chapter 8 - Are Rhizobium and Soil Enzyme Activities Good Indicators of Heavy Metal Soil Contamination pp. 237-255
(Pereira, S.I.A, Centre for Cell Biology, Dept. of Biology, Aveiro, Portugal, Castro, I.V, Dept. de Ecologia, Recursos Naturais e Ambiente, Oeiras, Portugal, Figueira, E., Centre for Cell Biology, Dept. of Biology, Aveiro, Portugal)

Chapter 9 - Virus-Binding Proteins in the Water Environments: Natural Ligands for Human Viruses pp. 257-272
(Daisuke Sano, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan, Dept. of Microbiology, School of Biology, Univ.of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Tatsuo Omura, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan)

Chapter 10 - Advances in Marine Bacterial Pollution Monitoring
pp. 273-287
(Gabriella Caruso, Ermanno Crisafi, National Research Council, Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, Messina, Italy, Rosalba Caruso, Univ. Hospital Agency, Messina, Italy)

Index