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This volume focuses on those instances when benign and even beneficial relationships between microbes and their hosts opportunistically change and become detrimental toward the host.  It examines the triggering events which can factor into these changes, such as reduction in the host’s capacity for mounting an effective defensive response due to nutritional deprivation, coinfections and seemingly subtle environmental influences like the amounts of sunlight, temperature, and either water or air quality.  The effects of environmental changes can be compounded when they necessitate a physical relocation of species, in turn changing the probability of encounter between microbe and host.  The change also can result when pathogens, including virus species, either have modified the opportunist or attacked the host’s protective natural microflora.  The authors discuss these opportunistic interactions and assess their outcomes in both aquatic as well as terrestrial ecosystems, highlighting the impact on plant, invertebrate and vertebrate hosts.    .

Life sciences. --- Aquatic ecology. --- Microbial ecology. --- Microbiology. --- Plant pathology. --- Animal physiology. --- Life Sciences. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Animal Physiology. --- Plant Pathology. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Host-parasite relationships. --- Host-organism relationships --- Host-pathogen relationships --- Parasite-host relationships --- Pathogen-host relationships --- Relationships, Host-parasite --- Parasitism --- Plant diseases. --- Aquatic biology. --- Hydrobiology --- Water biology --- Aquatic sciences --- Biology --- Botany --- Communicable diseases in plants --- Crop diseases --- Crops --- Diseases of plants --- Microbial diseases in plants --- Pathological botany --- Pathology, Vegetable --- Phytopathology --- Plant pathology --- Plants --- Vegetable pathology --- Agricultural pests --- Crop losses --- Diseased plants --- Phytopathogenic microorganisms --- Plant pathologists --- Plant quarantine --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Anatomy --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Environmental microbiology --- Ecology --- Microbiology --- Pathology --- Diseases and pests --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Physiology --- Aquatic ecology . --- Aquatic biology

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This volume summarizes recent advances in environmental microbiology by providing fascinating insights into the diversity of microbial life that exists on our planet. The first two chapters present theoretical perspectives that help to consolidate our understanding of evolution as an adaptive process by which the niche and habitat of each species develop in a manner that interconnects individual components of an ecosystem. This results in communities that function by simultaneously coordinating their metabolic and physiologic actions. The third contribution addresses the fossil record of microorganisms, and the subsequent chapters then introduce the microbial life that currently exists in various terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Coverage of the geosphere addresses endolithic organisms, life in caves and the deep continental biosphere, including how subsurface microbial life may impact spent nuclear fuel repositories. The discussion of the hydrosphere includes hypersaline environments and arctic food chains. By better understanding examples from the micro biosphere, we can elucidate the many ways in which the niches of different species, both large and small, interconnect within the overlapping habitats of this world, which is governed by its microorganisms.

Life sciences. --- Ecosystems. --- Microbial ecology. --- Microbiology. --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Life Sciences. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Microorganisms. --- Germs --- Micro-organisms --- Microbes --- Microscopic organisms --- Environmental microbiology --- Microorganisms --- Ecology --- Microbiology --- Organisms --- Marine Sciences. --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation --- Ocean sciences --- Aquatic sciences --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Population biology --- Fresh waters --- Freshwater --- Freshwaters --- Inland water --- Inland waters --- Water

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This book summarizes current advances in our understanding of how infectious disease represents an ecological interaction between a pathogenic microorganism and the host species in which that microbe causes illness. The contributing authors explain that pathogenic microorganisms often also have broader ecological connections, which can include a natural environmental presence; possible transmission by vehicles such as air, water, and food; and interactions with other host species, including vectors for which the microbe either may or may not be pathogenic. This field of science has been dubbed disease ecology, and the chapters that examine it have been grouped into three sections. The first section introduces both the role of biological community interactions and the impact of biodiversity on infectious disease. In turn, the second section considers those diseases directly affecting humans, with a focus on waterborne and foodborne illnesses, while also examining the critical aspect of microbial biofilms. Lastly, the third section presents the ecology of infectious diseases from the perspective of their impact on mammalian livestock and wildlife as well as on humans. Given its breadth of coverage, the volume offers a valuable resource for microbial ecologists and biomedical scientists alike.

Host-parasite relationships --- Host-organism relationships --- Host-pathogen relationships --- Parasite-host relationships --- Pathogen-host relationships --- Relationships, Host-parasite --- Parasitism --- Microbial ecology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Wildlife management. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management. --- Animal populations --- Game management --- Management, Game --- Management, Wildlife --- Plant populations --- Wildlife resources --- Natural resources --- Wildlife conservation --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Environmental microbiology --- Microorganisms --- Ecology --- Microbiology --- Management --- Evolutionary biology. --- Wildlife. --- Fish. --- Fish --- Pisces --- Aquatic animals --- Vertebrates --- Fisheries --- Fishing --- Ichthyology

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This book discusses how aquatic microbial communities develop interactive metabolic coordination both within and between species to optimize their energetics. It explains that microbial community structuration often includes functional stratification among a multitude of organisms that variously exist either suspended in the water, lodged in sediments, or bound to one another as biofilms on solid surfaces. The authors describe techniques that can be used for preparing and distributing microbiologically safe drinking water, which presents the challenge of successfully removing the pathogenic members of the aquatic microbial community and then safely delivering that water to consumers. Drinking water distribution systems have their own microbial ecology, which we must both understand and control in order to maintain the safety of the water supply. Since studying aquatic microorganisms often entails identifying them, the book also discusses techniques for successfully isolating and cultivating bacteria. As such, it appeals to microbiologists, microbial ecologists and water quality scientists.

Freshwater microbiology --- Freshwater biology --- Water --- Microbiology --- Microbiology. --- Microbial ecology. --- Marine Sciences. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Ocean sciences --- Aquatic sciences --- Environmental microbiology --- Microorganisms --- Ecology --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Fresh waters --- Freshwater --- Freshwaters --- Inland water --- Inland waters

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Viral Ecology defines and explains the ecology of viruses by examining their interactions with their hosting species, including the types of transmission cycles that have evolved, encompassing principal and alternate hosts, vehicles, and vectors. It examines virology from an organismal biology approach, focusing on the concept that viral infections represent areas of overlap in the ecology of viruses, their hosts, and their vectors.Key Features* The relationship between viruses and their hosting species* The concept that viral interactions with their hosts represents a h

Viruses --- Virology. --- Microbiology --- Ecology of viruses --- Viral ecology --- Virus ecology --- Microbial ecology --- Ecology.