Microbial Ecology

Informationen zum Autor Dr. J Vaun McArthur's research interests are quite diverse and span scales from ecological genetics to bacteria to ecosystem level studies with occasional forays into population and communicty ecology of invertebratesa nd microbes. His current emphasis is on the role of indirect selection in the spread of antibiotic resistance in aquatic (freshwater and marine) bacteria. He has taugh General Zoology, Biology, Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Environmental Science, and Limnology. He holds adjunct faculty appointments at the Institute of Ecology at UGA and the Department of Entomology at Clemson University. Klappentext The role of evolution in the patterns and observed processes in microbial ecology has long been neglected in available texts, yet the interface between evolution and ecology has been fruitful in explaining many macrobiological phenomena, and should also help explain patterns in the microbiological world. Outstanding features of this book include: species concepts and microbial ecology, species interactions, nutrient cycling from an evolutionary view and quorum sensing and cheating. Zusammenfassung Examines microbiology through the lens of evolutionary ecology. This text covers topics such as optimal foraging! genome! reduction! novel evolutionary mechanisms! bacterial speciation! and r and K selection. It applies evolutionary ecological concepts to microbes! and addresses individual! population and community ecology. Inhaltsverzeichnis SECTION I. Ecology and Evolution Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Molecules and Origins of Life Chapter 3. Species concepts and speciation SECTION II. Ecology of Individuals Chapter 4. The Individual Chapter 5. Growth and Feeding Chapter 6. Ecology of Sex SECTION III. Living Together in Populations Chapter 7. Fundamentals of microbial population ecology Chapter 8. Metapopulations, Multicellularity, and Modular Growth Chapter 9. Effects of Habitats, Genome Size, Diversity and Bacterial Communication on Population Processes Chapter 10. Population Spatial Stability SECTION IV. Living Together in Communities Chapter 11. Characteristics of Communities and Diversity Chapter 12. Concepts in Community Ecology Chapter 13. Microbes and the Processing of Nutrients Chapter 14. Species Interactions and Processes Chapter 15: More Species Interactions Bibliography Glossary Figure Legends...

Autorentext
Dr. J Vaun McArthur's research interests are quite diverse and span scales from ecological genetics to bacteria to ecosystem level studies with occasional forays into population and communicty ecology of invertebratesa nd microbes. His current emphasis is on the role of indirect selection in the spread of antibiotic resistance in aquatic (freshwater and marine) bacteria. He has taugh General Zoology, Biology, Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Environmental Science, and Limnology. He holds adjunct faculty appointments at the Institute of Ecology at UGA and the Department of Entomology at Clemson University.

Klappentext

The role of evolution in the patterns and observed processes in microbial ecology has long been neglected in available texts, yet the interface between evolution and ecology has been fruitful in explaining many macrobiological phenomena, and should also help explain patterns in the microbiological world. Outstanding features of this book include: species concepts and microbial ecology, species interactions, nutrient cycling from an evolutionary view and quorum sensing and cheating.

Zusammenfassung
Examines microbiology through the lens of evolutionary ecology. This text covers topics such as optimal foraging, genome, reduction, novel evolutionary mechanisms, bacterial speciation, and r and K selection. It applies evolutionary ecological concepts to microbes, and addresses individual, population and community ecology.

Inhalt

SECTION I. Ecology and Evolution
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Molecules and Origins of Life
Chapter 3. Species concepts and speciation

SECTION II. Ecology of Individuals
Chapter 4. The Individual
Chapter 5. Growth and Feeding
Chapter 6. Ecology of Sex

SECTION III. Living Together in Populations
Chapter 7. Fundamentals of microbial population ecology
Chapter 8. Metapopulations, Multicellularity, and Modular Growth
Chapter 9. Effects of Habitats, Genome Size, Diversity and Bacterial Communication on Population Processes
Chapter 10. Population Spatial Stability

SECTION IV. Living Together in Communities
Chapter 11. Characteristics of Communities and Diversity
Chapter 12. Concepts in Community Ecology
Chapter 13. Microbes and the Processing of Nutrients
Chapter 14. Species Interactions and Processes
Chapter 15: More Species Interactions

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