Thermophilic bacteria in cool temperate soils: Are they metabolically active or continually added by global atmospheric transport?

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 841-852

  Marchant, Roger ^a   Franzetti, Andrea ^b   Pavlostathis, Spyros G ^c   Tas, Didem Okutman ^c   Erdbrűgger, Isabel ^a   Űnyayar, Ali ^d   Mazmanci, Mehmet A ^d   Banat, Ibrahim M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atmospheric bacteria; Cool soils; Geobacillus; Global transport; Rainwater; Thermophilic bacteria

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SOILS;

ATMOSPHERIC BACTERIA; COOL SOILS; GEOBACILLUS; GLOBAL TRANSPORT; RAINWATER; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIA;

BACTERIA;

RAIN;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; RAINWATER; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; VIABILITY;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOBACILLUS; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SOIL MICROFLORA; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

GEOBACILLUS;

EID: 41149169503     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-008-1372-y     Document Type: Article

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