Anaerobic microbes and communities in the context of soil and the equine digestive tract

Soil and herbivore gut environments present different challenges to plant degrading bacteria in terms of nutrient availability, fluctuations in moisture, pH and temperature, and temporal constraints, however complex communities of microbes in each serve similar roles in hydrolyzing and fermenting th...

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Main Author: Biddle, Amy Sanders
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2014
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3615399