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Microorganisms are involved in numerous processes in the environment in a desirable or undesirable manner. At the same time, they practically never occur in nature as pure cultures, but always together with other microorganisms and often also higher organisms. In this respect, the task of learning something about the state of microbial communities arises again and again. Determination of bacterial counts and biomasses as well as termination of microbial activities are necessary methods to characterize microbial communities. The detection of certain microorganisms and the isolation of pure cultures i.e. by bringing them from Nature to the laboratory are other classic procedures.
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Reineke, W., Schlömann, M. (2023). Microbial Communities: Structural and Functional Analyses with Classical Approach. In: Environmental Microbiology. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66547-3_11
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