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The Spatial Distribution of Microbes in the Environment

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Rima B. Franklin

    1. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

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  2. Aaron L. Mills

    1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

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  • Attempts to address issues of scale of microbes juxtaposed with the footprint of their activities on the landscape
  • Includes discussion of fungi in soils and planktonic microorganisms in water in an attempt to reconcile differences in scale of those organisms to their activity footprint
  • Provides a primer on quantitative methods used to evaluate scale issues and distributions in an effort to allow readers to follow arguments presented in the various chapters, as well as to understand many presentations in the primary literature
  • How microbial community spatial patterns correlate with environmental heterogeneity
  • Considers a diversity of habitats (rhizosphere, surface soils, terrestrial subsurface, and aquatic environments) and a variety of spatial scales (µm to km)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

    Rima B. Franklin

  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    Aaron L. Mills

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