Special Issue: Response of Microbial Communities to Environmental Changes

Special Issue: Gut Microbial Communities in Health and Disease

The complex and ancient relationships between animal hosts and the microbial communities that inhabit their digestive tracts have become the focus of intense research in recent years. As a result, our understanding of gut microbial ecology and of the evolutionary and physiologic impacts of gut microbial communities in animal hosts has grown markedly. Indeed, members of the gut microbiota have n...

Changes in microbial communities in response to submarine groundwater input

The effects of submarine groundwater on the native plankton populations of a coastal area were examined through a series of in situ groundwater addition experiments carried out during the summer in a Mediterranean embayment. Different percentages (4, 8, 10 and 12%) of groundwater extracted from 2 intertidal coastal localities subjected to different land uses were added to picoplankton-dominated...

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Editorial: Microbial Responses to Environmental Changes

Earth is teeming with taxonomically, phylogenetically, and metabolically highly diverse microorganisms ; organisms that are crucial for sustaining life on our planet in that they carry out processes of great biogeochemical significance. The processes and mechanisms underlying their diversity and distribution are, thus, of great interest, yet—despite their importance—only poorly understood. Micr...

Special Issue on Environmental Data Mining

Data Mining is the discipline for non trivial identifying of valid, novel, potentially useful, ultimately understandable patterns in data [3] and provides the opportunity to extract relevant decisional knowledge from data bases in any application field. In particular it can contribute to a better understanding of Environmental Sciences. Environmental Sciences is a wide research field with a num...