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This book is about the role played by microbes in their community mode in sustaining ecosystems. The descriptions given in its chapters indicate clearly that microbial communities are more effective in delivering multifaceted benefits to the soil-plant system than those offered by microbial monocultures in planktonic modes. The role these communities play in a multitude of microbe-microbe and plant-microbe interactions have not yet been fully exploited to gain benefits in this field as well as to achieve sustainability in agriculture practices. Amply discussed are the beneficial characteristics and metabolic capacities of specific microbial groups and the use of microbial traits for the benefit of plant growth. The book suggests the need to develop new microbial technologies to utilize plant-associated microbes for increased crop productivity and agroecosystem balance in order to ensure sustainability. This also provides an effective guidance to scientists, academics, researchers, students and policy makers of the sphere to achieve the above outcomes.

Microbiology. --- Biotechnology. --- Microbial ecology. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Environmental microbiology --- Microorganisms --- Ecology --- Microbiology --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Plant-microbe relationships. --- Plant-microbe interactions --- Plants

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From deep ocean trenches and the geographical poles to outer space, organisms can be found living in remarkably extreme conditions. This book provides a captivating account of these systems and their extraordinary inhabitants, 'extremophiles'. A diverse, multidisciplinary group of experts discuss responses and adaptations to change; biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions; polar environments; and life and habitability, including searching for biosignatures in the extraterrestrial environment. The editors emphasize that understanding these systems is important for increasing our knowledge and utilizing their potential, but this remains an understudied area. Given the threat to these environments and their biota caused by climate change and human impact, this timely book also addresses the urgency to document these systems. It will help graduate students and researchers in conservation, marine biology, evolutionary biology, environmental change and astrobiology better understand how life exists in these environments and their susceptibility or resilience to change.

Extreme environments --- Biodiversity --- Microbial ecology. --- Exobiology. --- Adaptation (Physiology) --- Acclimatization. --- Climatic changes. --- Microbiology. --- Climatic factors.

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This book examines an important paradigm shift in biology: Plants and animals, traditionally viewed as individuals, are now considered to be complex systems and host to a plethora of microorganisms. After first presenting historical aspects of microbiota research, bacterial compositions of individual microbiomes and the critical analysis of current methods, the book discusses how microbial communities inside the human body are profoundly affected by numerous factors, such as macro- and micro-nutrients, physical exercise, antibiotics, gender and age. As described by current research, the author highlights how microbiomes contribute to the fitness of the host by providing nutrients, inhibiting pathogens, aiding in the storage of fat during pregnancy, and contributing to development and behavior. The author not only focusses on prokaryotic components in microbiomes, but also addresses single-cell eukaryotes and viruses. This follow-up to the successful book The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota, published in 2013, provides a contemporary overview of microbiomes. It appeals to anyone working in the life sciences and biomedicine.

Microbial ecology. --- Medical microbiology. --- Bacteriology. --- Microbiology. --- Virology. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Eukaryotic Microbiology. --- Microbiology --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Microorganisms --- Environmental microbiology --- Ecology --- Ecologia microbiana --- Ecologia dels microorganismes --- Microbiologia ambiental --- Microbiologia del medi ambient --- Ecologia --- Microbiologia --- Biofilms --- Relacions planta-microbi

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Extreme environments --- Microorganisms. --- Microbiology. --- Extremophiles (Microbiology) --- Geomicrobiology --- Microbial ecology --- Extremozymes --- Germs --- Micro-organisms --- Microbes --- Microscopic organisms --- Organisms --- Microbiology

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From deep ocean trenches and the geographical poles to outer space, organisms can be found living in remarkably extreme conditions. This book provides a captivating account of these systems and their extraordinary inhabitants, 'extremophiles'. A diverse, multidisciplinary group of experts discuss responses and adaptations to change; biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions; polar environments; and life and habitability, including searching for biosignatures in the extraterrestrial environment. The editors emphasize that understanding these systems is important for increasing our knowledge and utilizing their potential, but this remains an understudied area. Given the threat to these environments and their biota caused by climate change and human impact, this timely book also addresses the urgency to document these systems. It will help graduate students and researchers in conservation, marine biology, evolutionary biology, environmental change and astrobiology better understand how life exists in these environments and their susceptibility or resilience to change.

Extreme environments --- Biodiversity --- Microbial ecology. --- Exobiology. --- Adaptation (Physiology) --- Acclimatization. --- Climatic changes. --- Microorganismes des milieux extrêmes. --- Exobiologie. --- Biodiversité --- Écologie microbienne. --- Adaptation (physiologie) --- Acclimatation. --- Climat --- Microbiology. --- Climatic factors. --- Effets du climat. --- Changements. --- Microbial ecology --- Exobiology --- Acclimatization --- Climatic changes --- Microbiology --- Climatic factors --- Extreme environments - Microbiology --- Biodiversity - Climatic factors --- Changements climatiques. --- Microorganismes des milieux extrêmes. --- Biodiversité --- Écologie microbienne.