Sediment microbiology
By: edited by D.B. Nedwell and C.M. Brown.
Contributors: Nedwell, D. B.; Brown, C. M. 1941-; Society for General Microbiology.; Society for General Microbiology. Ecology Group.
Series: Special publications of the Society for General Microbiology ;
Publisher: Published for the Society for General Microbiology by Academic Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Sediments (Geology) -- Microbiology -- Congresses.; Marine sediments -- Microbiology -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Based on the proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Ecology Group of the Society for General Microbiology, held in Cambridge in 1980.
Table of contents: title: The sediment environment / S.J. Malcolm and S.O. Stanley; title: Modelling the processes or organic matter degradation and nutrients recycling in sedimentary systems / G. Billen; title: Nitrate dissimilation in marine and estuarine sediments / R.A. Herbert; title: The cycling of sulphur in marine and freshwater sediments / D.B. Nedwell; title: Activities of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in lake sediments and their effect on the water column / J.G. Jones; title: Microbial activity in organically enriched marine sediments / N.S. Battersby and C.M. Brown; title: Interactions between bacteria and benthic invertebrates / J.C. Fry; title: Early transformations of isoprenoid compounds in surface sedimentary environments / J.R. Maxwell and A.M.K. Wardroper.