There is growing awareness that important environmental transformations are catalysed, mediated and influenced by microorganisms, and geomicrobiology can be defined as the influence of microorganisms on geologic processes. This is probably the most rapidly growing area of microbiology at present, combining environmental and molecular microbiology together with significant areas of mineralogy, geochemistry and hydrology. This volume focuses on the function of microorganisms in the environment and their influence on 'global' processes. It will include state-of-the art approaches to visualisation, culture and identification, community interactions and gene transfer, and diversity studies in relation to key processes. This overview for researchers and graduate students will represent environmental microbiology in its broadest sense and help to promote exciting collaborations between microbiologists and those in complementary physical and chemical disciplines.

Overview of geomicrobiology; the role microorganisms have played and are playing in geologic processes.

About the Author
Geoffrey Michael Gadd is Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Division of Environmental and Applied Biology in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, UK. Kirk T. Semple is a Reader in the Department of Environmental Science at Lancaster University, UK. Hilary M. Lappin-Scott is Professor of Environmental Microbiology in the School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, UK.

Reviews
'This book constitutes a milestone in the emerging field of biogeosciences and will interest not only microbial ecologists and geomicrobiologists, but also all scientists working with a multidisciplinary perspective and approach to understand the Earth's biogeosystem.' Microbiology Today



Book Information
ISBN 9780521862226
Author Geoff Gadd
Format Hardback
Page Count 388
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 750g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 153mm * 22mm