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Functional Microbiomes

  • 1st Edition, Volume 67 - November 17, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: David Bohan, Alex Dumbrell
  • Language: English

Functional Microbiomes, Volume 67 in the Advances in Ecological Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new release highlighting timely content written… Read more

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Functional Microbiomes, Volume 67 in the Advances in Ecological Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new release highlighting timely content written by an international board of authors. Sections cover the Linking microbial body size to community co-occurrences and stability at multiple geographical scales in agricultural soils, The functional microbiome of grapevine throughout plant evolutionary history and lifetime, Compendium of analytical methods for sampling, characterisation and quantification of bioaerosols, The microbial solution to oil sand pollution: understanding the microbiomes, metabolic pathways and mechanisms involved in naphthenic acid (NA) biodegradation, The Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, and The need to understand how multiple chemical stressors impact freshwater aquatic microbiomes

Key features

  • Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
  • Presents the latest release in the Advances in Ecological Research series
  • Updated release includes the latest information on Microbiome Regulated Interactions and Behaviours

Readership

Environmentalists, ecologists at undergraduate through to research level, social scientists and economists

Table of contents

Preface
David Andrew Bohan and Alex J. Dumbrell

1. Linking microbial body size to community co-occurrences and stability at multiple geographical scales in agricultural soils
Alex J. Dumbrell, Pengfa Li, Ming Liu and Zhongpei Li

2. The functional microbiome of grapevine throughout plant evolutionary history and lifetime
Corinne Vacher, David Andrew Bohan, Paola Fournier, Lucille Pellan, Didac Barroso-Bergadà, Thierry Candresse, François Delmotte, Marie-Cécile Dufour, Virginie Lauvergeat, Claire Le Marrec, Armelle Marais, Guilherme Martins, Isabelle Masneuf-Pomarède, Patrice Rey, David Sherman, Patrice This, Clémence Frioux and Simon Labarthe

3. Compendium of analytical methods for sampling, characterisation and quantification of bioaerosols
Corinne Whitby, Robert Michael William Ferguson and Alex J. Dumbrell

4. The microbial solution to oil sand pollution: understanding the microbiomes, metabolic pathways and mechanisms involved in naphthenic acid (NA) biodegradation
David Andrew Bohan, Alex J. Dumbrell and Corinne Whitby

5. The Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Patrick Daniel Varga-Weisz and Salma El-Sahhar

6. Mind the gaps - The need to understand how multiple chemical stressors impact freshwater aquatic microbiomes
Robert Michael William Ferguson, Alessia Bani, Kate Randall, Benjamin Gregson, Erin Losty, David Clark and Drew Henderson

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 67
  • Published: November 22, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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David Bohan

Dave Bohan is an agricultural ecologist with an interest in predator-prey regulation interactions. Dave uses a model system of a carabid beetle predator and two agriculturally important prey; slugs and weed seeds. He has shown that carabids find and consume slug prey, within fields, and that this leads to regulation of slug populations and interesting spatial ‘waves’ in slug and carabid density. The carabids also intercept weed seeds shed by weed plants before they enter the soil, and thus carabids can regulate the long-term store of seeds in the seedbank on national scales. What is interesting about this system is that it contains two important regulation ecosystem services delivered by one group of service providers, the carabids. This system therefore integrates, in miniature, many of the problems of interaction between services.

Dave has most recently begun to work with networks. He developed, with colleagues, a learning methodology to build networks from sample date. This has produced the largest, replicated network in agriculture. One of his particular interests is how behaviours and dynamics at the species level, as studied using the carabid-slug-weed system, build across species and their interactions to the dynamics of networks at the ecosystem level.

Affiliations and expertise
Agricultural Ecologist, UMR 1347 Agroecologie, Dijon, France

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Alex Dumbrell

Dr Alex Dumbrell works at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Essex, UK

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