• ISBN13: 9780412983610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Springer
• Publisher Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: January 31, 1997
• Pages: 658
• Original Price: EUR 199.99
• Language: English
• Edition: 1997
• Item Weight: 1116 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Agriculture / Forestry, and Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology

Extremely diverse and complicated bacterial and protozoan populations inhabit the rumen and intestinal tract of animals, and there is a delicate balance among the individual populations within this complex microbial community. This authoritative edited volume, the first in a two-volume set, reviews the gut environment and the fermentations taking place in animal digestive tracts. It is an essential source of reference for microbial ecologists and physiologists, medical microbiologists and gastroenterologists, biochemists, nutritionists, veterinarians and animal scientists, and wildlife ecologists.