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ERIC at COASTAL.EDU wrote:
> Dear colleauges, if anyone out there could help, I'm interested in
> getting a hold of any work that has been done dealing with the
> influence of environmental fluctuation on microbial diversity. I am
> involved in estuarine research, and the sites within the estuary are
> characterized by a strong gradient not only in mean concentration
> (or value) of nutrients, DOM, salinity, etc... but also a strong
> gradient in the diel & tidal variability (what I'm calling pulse) of
> these factors. I would be interested in ANY work that has examined
> this type of environmental variability on microbial (bacterial & phyto
> plankton) diversity - this could be field, lab or theoretical work. I have
> searched oceanic abstracts for 1981 - present and there is very little
> available there. I appreciate any response concerning this request.
> Thanks in advance for your consideration.
>> Sincerely,
>> Eric Koepfler
> Associate Professor
> Marine Science Department
> Coastal Carolina University
> Conway, SC 29526
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Eric, If you would like a molecular approach to microbial diversity resulting
from environmental factors (such as temperature fluctuations), try looking at
the work of David Ward and his coworkers on hot spring cyanobacterial mat
communities. A nice review was published recently: Ward, D. M. et al. 1998.
A Natural View of Microbial Biodiversity within Hot Spring Cyanobacterial Mat
Communities. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 62:1353-1370.
Josh Neufeld.
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