Microbial Life of Cave Systems / / ed. by Annette Summers Engel.
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 h...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Contributing authors
- 1. Bringing Microbes into Focus for Speleology: An Introduction
- 2. Methods for Characterizing Microbial Communities in Caves and Karst: A Review
- 3. “A Grand, Gloomy, and Peculiar Place”: Microbiology in the Mammoth Cave Region
- 4. Starving Artists: Bacterial Oligotrophic Heterotrophy in Caves
- 5. Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity on Cave Speleothem and Rock Surfaces: A Carbonate Cave Case Study from Kartchner Caverns
- 6. Microbial Slime Curtain Communities of the Nullarbor Caves
- 7. Microbial Diversity and Manganese Cycling: A Review of Manganese-oxidizing Microbial Cave Communities
- 8. Microbial Diversity and Ecology of Lava Caves
- 9. Predicting bacterial diversity in caves associated with sulfuric acid speleogenesis
- 10. Microbial Life in Unusual Cave Ecosystems Sustained by Chemosynthetic Primary Production
- 11. The Microbiology of Show Caves, Mines, Tunnels, and Tombs: Implications for Management and Conservation
- 12. The Diversity and Ecology of Microbes Associated with Lampenflora in Cave and Karst Settings
- 13. Lascaux Cave: An Example of Fragile Ecological Balance in Subterranean Environments
- 14. Scientific Data Suggest Altamira Cave Should Remain Closed
- Index
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