SfAM - Society for Applied Microbiology (United Kingdom)
Wiley (United States)
The scope of Environmental Microbiology encompasses the diversity of current research on microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities, interactions and evolution and includes, but is not limited to, the
The scope of Environmental Microbiology encompasses the diversity of current research on microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities, interactions and evolution and includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- the structure, activities and communal behaviour of microbial communities
- microbial community genetics and evolutionary processes
- microbial symbioses, microbial interactions and interactions with plants, animals and abiotic factors
- microbes in the tree of life, microbial diversification and evolution
- microbiomes and holobionts
- population biology and clonal structure
- microbial metabolic and structural diversity
- microbial physiology, growth and survival
- primary and secondary metabolism in the environment
- microbes and surfaces, adhesion and biofilm
- responses to environmental signals and stress factors
- modelling and theory development
- pollution microbiology
- microbial ecology of pathogens
- extremophiles and life in extreme and unusual little-explored habitats
- element cycles and biogeochemical processes
- microbes in a changing world, microbially-influenced global changes
- systems biology and computational predictions
- evolution and diversity of archaeal and bacterial viruses
- new technological developments in microbial ecology and evolution, in particular for the study of activities of microbial communities, non-culturable microorganisms and emerging pathogens
- single cell microbial ecology.
- Author-paid optional open access
- English