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Microbiology and atmospheric processes: research challenges concerning the impact of airborne micro-organisms on the atmosphere and climate |
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C. E. Morris, D. C. Sands, M. Bardin, R. Jaenicke, B. Vogel, C. Leyronas, P. A. Ariya, R. Psenner |
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Englisch
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1726-4170
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In: Biogeosciences ; 8, no. 1 ; Nr. 8, no. 1 (2011-01-03), S.17-25 |
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250005342
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/bg-8-17-2011.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| For the past 200 years, the field of aerobiology has explored the abundance,
diversity, survival and transport of micro-organisms in the atmosphere.
Micro-organisms have been explored as passive and severely stressed riders
of atmospheric transport systems. Recently, an interest in the active roles
of these micro-organisms has emerged along with proposals that the
atmosphere is a global biome for microbial metabolic activity and perhaps
even multiplication. As part of a series of papers on the sources,
distribution and roles in atmospheric processes of biological particles in
the atmosphere, here we describe the pertinence of questions relating to the
potential roles that air-borne micro-organisms might play in meteorological
phenomena. For the upcoming era of research on the role of air-borne
micro-organisms in meteorological phenomena, one important challenge is to
go beyond descriptions of abundance of micro-organisms in the atmosphere
toward an understanding of their dynamics in terms of both biological and
physico-chemical properties and of the relevant transport processes at
different scales. Another challenge is to develop this understanding under
contexts pertinent to their potential role in processes related to
atmospheric chemistry, the formation of clouds, precipitation and radiative
forcing. This will require truly interdisciplinary approaches involving
collaborators from the biological and physical sciences, from disciplines as
disparate as agronomy, microbial genetics and atmosphere physics, for
example. |
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