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Microbial Life of Cave Systems

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2015
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Life in Extreme Environments

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The earth's subsurface contains abundant and active microbial biomass, living in water, occupying pore space, and colonizing mineral and rock surfaces. Caves are one type of subsurface habitat, being natural, solutionally- or collapse-enlarged openings in rock. Within the past 30 years, there has been an increase in the number of microbiology studies from cave environments to understand cave ecology, cave geology, and even the origins of life. By emphasizing the microbial life of caves, and the ecological processes and geological consequences attributed to microbes, this book provides the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the microbial life of caves for students, professionals, and general readers.

  • Unique focus on the microbial life of caves, the ecological processes and geological consequences attributed to microbes in cave environments
  • Full color illustrations

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Annette Summers Engel, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Preface

    V
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    Contents

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    Contributing authors

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    1. Bringing Microbes into Focus for Speleology: An Introduction

    1
    Annette Summers Engel
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    2. Methods for Characterizing Microbial Communities in Caves and Karst: A Review

    23
    Daniel S. Jones
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    3. “A Grand, Gloomy, and Peculiar Place”: Microbiology in the Mammoth Cave Region

    47
    Kathleen H. Lavoie
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    4. Starving Artists: Bacterial Oligotrophic Heterotrophy in Caves

    79
    Hazel A. Barton
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    5. Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity on Cave Speleothem and Rock Surfaces: A Carbonate Cave Case Study from Kartchner Caverns

    105
    Marianyoly Ortiz, Julia W. Neilson, Antje Legatzki and Raina M. Maier
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    6. Microbial Slime Curtain Communities of the Nullarbor Caves

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    Sasha G. Tetu, Liam D.H. Elbourne, Andrew Cronan, Andrew J. Holmes, Michael R. Gillings and Ian T. Paulsen
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    7. Microbial Diversity and Manganese Cycling: A Review of Manganese-oxidizing Microbial Cave Communities

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    Sarah K. Carmichael and Suzanna L. Bräuer
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    8. Microbial Diversity and Ecology of Lava Caves

    161
    Diana E. Northup and Kathleen H. Lavoie
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    9. Predicting bacterial diversity in caves associated with sulfuric acid speleogenesis

    193
    Audrey Paterson and Annette Summers Engel
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    10. Microbial Life in Unusual Cave Ecosystems Sustained by Chemosynthetic Primary Production

    215
    Deepak Kumaresan, Alexandra M. Hillebrand-Voiculescu, Daniela Wischer, Jason Stephenson, Yin Chen and J. Colin Murrell
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    11. The Microbiology of Show Caves, Mines, Tunnels, and Tombs: Implications for Management and Conservation

    231
    Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez
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    12. The Diversity and Ecology of Microbes Associated with Lampenflora in Cave and Karst Settings

    263
    Janez Mulec
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    13. Lascaux Cave: An Example of Fragile Ecological Balance in Subterranean Environments

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    Pedro M. Martin-Sanchez, Ana Z. Miller and Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez
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    14. Scientific Data Suggest Altamira Cave Should Remain Closed

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    Soledad Cuezva, Valme Jurado, Angel Fernandez-Cortes, Elena Garcia-Anton, Miguel Angel Rogerio-Candelera, Xavier Ariño, David Benavente, Juan Carlos Cañaveras, Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez and Sergio Sanchez-Moral
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    Index

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 16, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9783110339888
Hardcover published on:
October 16, 2015
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110334999
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
15
Main content:
335
Illustrations:
50
Coloured Illustrations:
50
Tables:
15
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339888
eBook ISBN: 9783110339888
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110334999
Keywords for this book
Microbiology; Cave; Karst; Ecology; Speleology
Audience(s) for this book
Research scientists and graduate students in microbiology, geomicrobiology, ecology, environmental sciences
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