AME Specials
AME SPECIAL 4
The SAME (Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology) series is a prime space for discussion and interaction for the international aquatic microbial community. SAME 11 was hosted by the Marine Biology Station in Piran, Slovenia, from August 30 to September 4, 2009, and brought together 210 scientists from over 30 countries. This AME SPECIAL, based on the SAME 11, is composed of papers contributed by the invited plenary speakers of the symposium. It aims to provide readers with a synthesis and critical analysis of key contemporary issues in aquatic microbial ecology, highlighting new discoveries and paradigm shifts and cutting-edge technical developments, and providing specific examples of current ecological problems. Topics covered include microbial effects of ocean acidification, the molecular basis of microbial N cycling, the challenges of interpreting massive amounts of sequencing data, the role of phosphorus in the functioning of microbial systems, and bacterial-zooplankton interactions.
Publication Date: December 30, 2010
Editor: Paul A. del Giorgio
AME SPECIAL 3
Rassoulzadegan at Villefranche-sur-Mer: 3 decades of aquatic microbial ecology
Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan began his career working on ciliate microzooplankton in the 1970's as one of the pioneers bringing microbial food webs into the limelight. His contributions over the past 30 odd years have spanned from the nutrition of tintinnid ciliates to the relationships between limiting nutrients and dissolved organic carbon dynamics. This year he will be assuming a new role, that of 'Emeritus', and to mark the occasion a special issue of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, composed of contributions from leading researchers in the field of microbial ecology, has been published.
Publication date: November 24, 2009
Editors: John Dolan, Behzad Mostajir, Télesphore Sime-Ngando
AME SPECIAL 2
This AME Special presents a series of reviews presented by invited keynote speakers during the 8th Group for Aquatic Primary Productivity (GAP) workshop in Eilat, Israel, in March/April 2008, as well as research papers on experimental studies carried out during the workshop. The work group topics included: Open Ocean, Phytoplankton, Algal Biotechnology, Saltern Ponds, and Coral Reefs.
Publication date: September 3, 2009
Editors: Hugh MacIntyre, Tom Berman, Ilana Berman Frank
AME SPECIAL 1
This first AME SPECIAL is based on the 10th meeting of the Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology (SAME 10). It brings together a set of interesting and diverse papers covering a wide range of ecosystems- including open and coastal oceans, estuaries and freshwaters-as well as most microbial components, from planktonic prokaryotes and protists to benthic and biofilm communities.
Publication date: September 18, 2008
Editor: Paul A. del Giorgio