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2008, Oceanography 21(4):205–206, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2008.26
BOOK REVIEW | Microbial Ecology of the Oceans
(Second Edition)
Book Information | Reviewer | First Paragraph | Full Review | Citation
Book Information
Microbial Ecology of the Oceans (Second Edition)
David L. Kirchman, Editor, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008, 593 pages, ISBN 047004344X,
Hardcover, $100 US
Reviewer
Lawrence R. Pomeroy | Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
First Paragraph
For much of the twentieth century, marine microbial ecology was considered to be a minor and relatively unimportant aspect of oceanography. A lack of appropriate methodology led microbiologists to believe that bacteria were not abundant or particularly active. That view began to change with the development of an improved method for counting marine bacteria (Hobbie et al., 1977), which showed them to be much more abundant than conventional methods had suggested. Research accelerated after publication of a method for measuring bacterial secondary production (Fuhrman and Azam, 1982) and of a sensitive method for measuring microbial respiration in the ocean (Williams and Jenkinson, 1982). Data gathered with these improved methods left no doubt that bacterial growth and respiration constituted a major carbon flux in the ocean.
Full Review
Citation
Pomeroy, L.R. 2008. Review of Microbial Ecology of the Oceans (Second Edition), edited by
D.L. Kirchman. Oceanography 21(4):205–206, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2008.26.