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The purpose of this review is to present and discuss current knowledge on the role played by bacteria in the carbon cycle of ecosystems. The ecological experience of the authors explains why our examples are mainly derived from aquatic systems; many of the discussed principles, however, apply equally well to terrestrial systems. In fact the one environmental requirement common to all microorganisms is the presence of free water, and in a sense all microorganisms are aquatic organisms. In contrast to soil biologists, students of aquatic ecosystems began to appreciate the quantitative importance of bacteria in the transformation of matter only relatively recently, although some early studies (e.g., ZoBell and Feltham, 1937-38, 1942; ZoBell and Grant, 1943;ZoBell and Landon, 1937) emphasized the importance of bacteria in marine food chains. However, while marine ecologists early in this century were aware of the importance of detritus food chains in the sea (e.g., Boysen-Jensen, 1914), in general only little attention was given to bacteria. Within the last 15 years, the interest in aquatic microbial ecology has increased drastically as witnessed by a large number of textbooks and symp

Who reads Advances in microbial ecology. Volume 1?

Author

T. M. Fenchel, B. Barker Jørgensen (auth.), M. Alexander (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461582212

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Biology, Stem