Intro; Series Preface; Volume Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Understanding Aquatic Microbial Communities; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Water Has Depth and Divides; 1.3 And Its Ecosystems Are Filled with Amazing Life Forms; 1.4 It Often Takes a Biofilm to Nurture a Microbe; 1.5 When Life Hits the Mat; 1.6 The Fungi Will Get You If You Land in the Water; 1.7 Researching Microbiology Even When You Are Up to Your Waist in Alligators While Studying Respiration Without Oxygen, in a ...; 1.8 And Microbes Are even in the Water that We Would Want to Drink

1.9 They Are more than Just Nameless Faces: There Are Ways to Culture and Identify even the Seemingly UngrowableReferences; Chapter 2: Relationship Between Lifestyle and Structure of Bacterial Communities and Their Functionality in Aquatic Systems; 2.1 Conceptual Idea; 2.2 How Much Free-Living Is Free-Living?; 2.3 Microhabitat Descriptions; 2.3.1 Diffusion-Controlled Water Phase (DifP) and Colloidal Phase (ColP); 2.3.1.1 Physiochemical Characterization and Major Dynamics; 2.3.1.2 Bacterial Adaptations: To Eat and Not Be Eaten; 2.3.2 Marine and Freshwater Particles (Par)

2.3.2.1 Physiochemical Characterization and Major Dynamics2.3.2.2 Bacterial Adaptations; 2.3.3 Living Biosphere (Bio); 2.3.3.1 Physiochemical Characterization and Major Dynamics; 2.3.3.2 Bacterial Adaptations; 2.4 Human-Mediated Implications; 2.5 Scaling Up to the Biomes; 2.6 Future Perspectives; References; Chapter 3: Biofilms: Besieged Cities or Thriving Ports?; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Rationale; 3.2.1 Living Beings Interact with the Environment; 3.2.2 Points of Consideration for the Next Generation of Biofilm Researchers; 3.3 Background; 3.3.1 Microbiology Legacy

3.3.2 Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity Associated with Biofilms3.4 Appropriate Analogies and Rubrics; 3.4.1 Thriving Port City or Besieged City?; 3.5 Key Physical Parameters; 3.5.1 Microbes in Aqueous Solutions; 3.5.2 The Reynolds Number; 3.5.2.1 Inertial Force of a Fluid; 3.5.2.2 Viscosity of a Fluid; 3.5.2.3 Reynolds Number Equation; 3.5.2.4 Points for Consideration When Applying the Reynolds Number; 3.5.2.5 Reynolds Number for a Swimming Body Such as a Bacterium; 3.5.3 Reduced Flow Velocity Near a Surface; 3.5.4 Flow in Non-Newtonian Fluids Such as a Biofilm; 3.6 Bacterial Locomotion

3.6.1 Single Cell Swimming3.6.2 Collective Swimming; 3.6.3 Surface Interaction; 3.6.3.1 Swimming Close to a Surface; 3.6.3.2 Surface Sensing; 3.6.3.3 Shear Trapping; 3.6.3.4 Swimming Upstream; 3.7 Dissolved Nutrients; 3.7.1 Diffusion and Advection; 3.7.2 Chemotaxis; 3.8 Evaluating the Port City Analogy; 3.8.1 Biofilm Formation or Association: Immigration; 3.8.2 Motility in or Around the Biofilm; 3.8.3 Biofilm Detachment: Emigration; 3.8.3.1 Modes of Biofilm Detachment; 3.8.3.2 Erosion, Planktonic Cell Yield, and Seeding Dispersion; 3.8.3.3 Rates and Extent of Biofilm Detachment