Microbial Ecology of Lake Plußsee

Microbial Ecology of Lake Plußsee reflects of the current state of techniques and approaches in the field of aquatic microbial ecology and will serve as a model of contemporary research in lake studies. It will be of interest to microbial ecologists, environmental microbiologists, and limnologists. This important case study represents a revision of the field of freshwater microbial ecology and will thus have wide interest to ecologists and microbiologists. It applies biochemical methods to study the microbial communities in a lake ecosystem.

Autorentext
Microbial Ecology of Lake Plußsee reflects of the current state of techniques and approaches in the field of aquatic microbial ecology and will serve as a model of contemporary research in lake studies. It will be of interest to microbial ecologists, environmental microbiologists, and limnologists. This important case study represents a revision of the field of freshwater microbial ecology and will thus have wide interest to ecologists and microbiologists. It applies biochemical methods to study the microbial communities in a lake ecosystem.

Inhalt

1. Limnology of the Plußsee.- 2. Dissolved Organic Matter: Analysis of Composition and by a Molecular-Biochemical Approach.- 3. Primary Production, Photosynthesis, and Chlorophylla in the Plußsee.- 4. Phytoplankton-Excreted Organic Carbon.- 5. Bacterial Secondary Production.- 6. Microbial Enzymatic Degradation and Utilization of Organic Matter.- 7. Saprophytic and Oligotrophic Bacteria in the Plußsee.- 8. Heterotrophic Potential of Bacteria.- 9. Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase: Allosteric Regulation at the Ecosystem Level by Dissolved Organic Matter.- 10. Relations between Limnothrix redekei (Cyanophyta/Cyanobacteria) and Bacteria: Mutual Control of Growth by Extracellular Algal Products.- 11. Zooplankton Grazing on Bacteria.- 12. Nanoflagellate and Ciliate Grazing on Bacteria.- 13. Viruses.- 14. Phototrophic Bacteria in the Plußsee: Ecology of the Sulfuretum.- 15. Iron Bacteria.- 16. Metabolism of Methane and the Carbon Cycle in the Plußsee.- 17. Bacterial Life in the Plußsee: General Remarks on Aquatic Microbial Ecology.