Urban Watershed Microbiology, Volume 1 by Tiquia-Arashiro, Sonia M.; Medema, Gertjan; Ubomba-Jaswa, Eunice;

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This book addresses significant gaps in our understanding of how watershed microbial structures and functions respond to the pressures of urbanization. It consolidates rapidly evolving, yet often fragmented, global data on watershed microbiomes, providing critical insights into the impacts of urban pollution, human health risks, and long-term ecological consequences.

Featuring the latest technological advancements in biological monitoring, microbial source-tracking technologies, and strategies for effective watershed management, this volume serves as a comprehensive and reliable source for the current state of urban watershed microbiology. It examines the unique challenges urbanization presents to ecosystems, especially in terms of atmospheric chemistry, hydrology, vegetation, and how these factors disrupt microbial communities that mediate essential ecosystem services like water purification, nutrient recycling, and degradation of pollutants.

Together the two-volume work delves into the mechanisms behind the urban watershed syndrome—ecological degradation of streams—and explores many unanswered questions that hinder progress in understanding urban watershed microbiomes. With original research articles, reviews, and perspectives, this collection is a key resource for microbiologists, environmental scientists, engineers, and professionals involved in water quality, ecosystem management, and land-use planning. The hope is that this volume will inspire new breakthroughs, drive further research, and ultimately help shape effective strategies for addressing the ecological challenges of urban watersheds.

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Section 1: Metagenomics and Molecular Biology in Watershed Microbial Community Studies.- Viral Metagenomics: Assessing Potential Sources of Fecal Contamination in Watershed Systems.- Evaluation of Microbial Community Assembly and Their Interactions with Riverine and Anthropogenic DOM Under Different Urbanization Levels.- Microbial Biodiversity of Man-made Water Features.- Microbial Communities in the Sediments of Rift Lake Baikal and Their role in Diagenesis Processes.- Water Quality and Bacterial Community Characteristics of Lakes and Reservoirs with Different Land-use Types.- Interactions between the Microbiome, Virome and Cyanobacterial Blooms in Tropical Urban Catchments.- Section 2: Urban Development and the Occurrence and Persistence of Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Source tracking Technologies.- Quanti-Tray-based Amplicon Sequencing (QT-AMP) Application for Fecal Indicator Bacteria Identification after Hurricane Ian.- A Review of Metal and Antibiotic Resistance of Microbial Strains and Their Bioremediation Ability.- Aquatic Environmental Influence on Antimicrobial Resistance in Various Water Sources: A Hydrological Perspective.- Diverse Aminoglycoside Gene Cassettes (aadA1, aadB, and aacA4) in Class 1 Integrons in Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Three Urban Watersheds.- Anthropogenic Environments and Antimicrobial Resistance Dynamics: A general Overview of a Complex Network.- Integrated Approaches to Tracking Antibiotic Resistance in Aquatic Ecosystems.- Section 3: Advances in Biological Monitoring and Modelling in Urban Watersheds and Community Science Monitoring.- Remote Sensing and Drivers of Harmful Cyanobacterial Algal Blooms in Freshwater Reservoirs.- Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Water Quality in Brazilian Semi-Arid Reservoirs using AlgaeMAp.- Satellite for Probing Aquatic Microbiological Processes: A Review.- Remote Sensing for Freshwater Quality Assessment: Current Developments and Future Trends.- Recent Advances in Watershed-scale Modeling of Microbial Fate and Transport.- Citizen Science Monitoring of Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae).