Biofilms and Deadzones:The Microbe-Environment Connection
Book Details
Author(s)David Carlberg
PublisherDavid Carlberg
ISBN / ASINB005ETRIAW
ISBN-13978B005ETRIA7
Sales Rank1,451,255
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Biofilms and Dead Zones
The Microbe Environment Connection
by David Carlberg, Ph.D.
The book offers a laymen 's guide to microorganisms and their critical role in the environment.
Microorganisms are the most numerous and most important organisms on Earth. They play a vital role in everything humans and other species do to survive, which makes them a crucial focus in environmental activism. In the book, Biofilms and Dead Zones: The Microbe Environment Connection: How Unseen Life Influences the World Around Us, David Carlberg presents one of the clearest layman’s guides about the importance of microorganisms to the health of Earth's environment.
Microorganisms have both positive and negative effects on the environment. Life needs bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms to survive, but, on a negative note, the wrong type of microorganisms can have detrimental, even catastrophic, effects. It is crucial for activists to understand the importance of these unseen organisms' impact on the environment.
Written for the typical reader, this book informs interested citizens and environmental activists about the world of microscopic organisms, without which life on Earth would not be possible. Carlberg presents the simple basics of microbiology, followed by both the positive and negative impact of microorganisms, including such varied topics as their roles in water treatment, in human health, in agriculture, in the formation of Earth’s geology and the nature of bioterrorism. Hundreds of questions on these and other topics are answered, such as:
How are our water supplies treated to make them safe and why do the treatments sometimes fail?
How are wetlands used to treat waste water?
Why are the tests commonly used to determine the microbial safety of recreational waters of
questionable value?
What are good biofilms and what are bad biofilms?
Why is there a danger of making treated urban runoff too clean?
How can air be used as a weapon?
What would an urban biological warfare attack be like?
What roles do microorganisms have in climate change?
How did microorganisms change the geology of our planet?
How does one set up the perfect compost pile?
How are microorganisms used to fight environmental pollution?
What are the environmental hazards of aquaculture operations?
The Microbe Environment Connection
by David Carlberg, Ph.D.
The book offers a laymen 's guide to microorganisms and their critical role in the environment.
Microorganisms are the most numerous and most important organisms on Earth. They play a vital role in everything humans and other species do to survive, which makes them a crucial focus in environmental activism. In the book, Biofilms and Dead Zones: The Microbe Environment Connection: How Unseen Life Influences the World Around Us, David Carlberg presents one of the clearest layman’s guides about the importance of microorganisms to the health of Earth's environment.
Microorganisms have both positive and negative effects on the environment. Life needs bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms to survive, but, on a negative note, the wrong type of microorganisms can have detrimental, even catastrophic, effects. It is crucial for activists to understand the importance of these unseen organisms' impact on the environment.
Written for the typical reader, this book informs interested citizens and environmental activists about the world of microscopic organisms, without which life on Earth would not be possible. Carlberg presents the simple basics of microbiology, followed by both the positive and negative impact of microorganisms, including such varied topics as their roles in water treatment, in human health, in agriculture, in the formation of Earth’s geology and the nature of bioterrorism. Hundreds of questions on these and other topics are answered, such as:
How are our water supplies treated to make them safe and why do the treatments sometimes fail?
How are wetlands used to treat waste water?
Why are the tests commonly used to determine the microbial safety of recreational waters of
questionable value?
What are good biofilms and what are bad biofilms?
Why is there a danger of making treated urban runoff too clean?
How can air be used as a weapon?
What would an urban biological warfare attack be like?
What roles do microorganisms have in climate change?
How did microorganisms change the geology of our planet?
How does one set up the perfect compost pile?
How are microorganisms used to fight environmental pollution?
What are the environmental hazards of aquaculture operations?
