Microbial ecology of the oceans / [edited by] David L. Kirchman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview / David L. Kirchman -- Understanding roles of microbes in marine pelagic food webs : a brief history / Evelyn Sherr and Barry Sherr -- Bacterial and archaeal community structure and its patterns / Jed A. Fuhrman and Åke Hagström -- Genomics and metagenomics of marine prokaryotes / Mary Ann Moran -- Photoheterotrophic marine prokaryotes / Oded Béjà and Marcelino T. Suzuki -- Ecology and diversity of picoeukaryotes / Alexandra Z. Worden and Fabrice Not -- Organic matter-bacteria interactions in seawater / Toshi Nagata -- Physiological structure and single-cell activity in marine bacterioplankton / Paul A. del Giorgio and Josep M. Gasol -- Heterotrophic bacterial respiration / Carol Robinson -- Resource control of bacterial dynamics in the sea / Matthew J. Church -- Protistan grazing on marine bacterioplankton / Klaus Jürgens and Ramon Massana -- Marine viruses : community dynamics, diversity, and impact on microbial processes / Mya Breitbart, Mathias Middelboe, and Forest Rohwer -- Molecular ecological aspects of nitrogen fixation in the marine environment / Jonathan P. Zehr and Hans W. Paerl -- Nitrogen cycling in sediments / Bo Thamdrup and Tage Dalsgaard.

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In addition to drawing on the rich history of microbiology, the book includes discussion of the latest advances in biological and chemical oceanography and limnology to examine the role of marine microbes and viruses in the oceans. It explores the diverse collection of microbes (and viruses) found in the oceans and describes many of the processes mediated by these microbes in aquatic environments.