This textbook examines the fundamental principles of microbial metabolism and how a microbe's ecology is intrinsically interwoven with and a consequence of its

Microbial ecology: an overview. Energy sources for microbial growth: an overview. Changes in oxygen tension and the microbial metabolism of organic carbon. The

This book has been written for students who are taking a course in bacterial metabolism. I hope, however, that scholars will also find it useful either as a hel

I am particularly indebted to Joan Macy, Lynne Quandt, Jan Andreesen and Peter Hillmer for reading the manuscript, for their criticisms and their suggestions, a