Includes Bibliographical References and Index.

Evaluation and Verification of Soil Remediation / Katalin Gruiz,Monika Molnar and Eva Fenyvesi -- Disinfection of Emply Animal Houses-Scientific Evidence for Applied procedures / Kim Oren Gradel -- Natural Bacterial Biofilms in the Environment / Odile Tresse,Rutger de Wit,Viviane Cassisa,Gaël Le Pennec,Dominique Haras and Michel Federighi -- Microbial and Chemical Assays to Determine the Origin of Faecal Pollution and the Presence of Waterborne Pathogens / M.M.Ehlers,A.Sundram ... The Effects of Fine Scale Environmental Variation on Microbial Community Structure and Function in Aquatic Environments / Kurt A.Smart ... Changes of Marine Bacterial Populations in a Ship`s Ballast Water and Sediment,and Aplication of Shock Pressures to Complete Killing of Vibrio sp.Cells Isolated From Ballast Water / Haruo Mimura ... Biodiversity and Ecology of Eukaryotic Organisms in Extreme Acidic Environments,the Rio Tinto Case / Angeles Aguilera ... Are Rhizobium and Soil Enzyme Activities good Indicators of Heavy Metal Soil Contamination? / S.I.A.Pereira ... Virus-Binding Proteins in Water Environments:Natural Ligands for Human Viruses / Diasuke Sano ... Advances in Marine Bacterial Pollution Monitoring / Gabriella Caruso ...