"This volume provides a good overview of how newer techniques are being used to study environmental microbial populations, primarily in water. It is a very useful starting point for those who are looking for an introduction to some of the methods or need to come up to speed on developments over the last decade or so ... The chapters are very well referenced ... it provides quite a comprehensive and useful look at the applications of a range of methodologies to aquatic microbiology in recent years. " from Jean MacRae (University of Maine, Orono, USA) writing in The Quarterly Review of Biology (2011) 86: 354-355. read more ...

Environmental Microbiology: Current Technology and Water Applications Edited by: Keya Sen and Nicholas J. Ashbolt ISBN: 978-1-904455-70-7 Publisher: Caister Academic Press Publication Date: January 2011 Cover: hardback "comprehensive and useful" (Quar. Rev. Biol.)

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