Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Book chapters |
| DOI | 10.1002/047147844X.sw601 |
| Title (Primary) | Microorganisms in their natural environment |
| Title (Secondary) | Water encyclopedia Volume 3: Surface and agricultural water |
| Author | Koschorreck, M. |
| Publisher | Lehr, J.; Keeley, J.; Lehr, J.; Kingery III, T.B. |
| Year | 2005 |
| Department | SEEFO |
| Page From | 309 |
| Page To | 313 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | microbes;bacteria;microbial ecology;gradients;biofilm;heterogeneity;habitat;biotic interactions;microbial loop;CLSM;microsensors;surfaces |
| UFZ inventory | Magdeburg, Bibliothek, 00395762, 05-0938 MA : Al 10 |
| Abstract | In their natural aquatic environment, microbes face conditions that principally differ from the picture of a mixture of different microbes swimming around in a kind of liquid culture. The study of microorganisms in laboratory cultures often gives limited information about the role and behavior of microorganisms in their natural habitat. Our understanding of microbes in their natural aquatic habitat was considerably increased by the development of in situ methods in the last decades. The introduction of microsensors allowed characterizing the microbial habitat on the size scale of microorganisms. The recent advances in microscopic techniques (confocal laser scanning microscopy, atomic force microscopy) offer the possibility of real 3-D examination of microbial aggregates or biofilms. Molecular techniques such as in situ hybridization to study the phylogeny and physiology of microorganisms in their natural environment are rapidly, improving. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=16765 |
| Koschorreck, M. (2005): Microorganisms in their natural environment In: Lehr, J., Keeley, J., Lehr, J., Kingery III, T.B. (eds.) Water encyclopedia Volume 3: Surface and agricultural water Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, p. 309 - 313 10.1002/047147844X.sw601 |
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