Preface to “Geochemistry of organic matter, microbes, and ecosystem”

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  • TAKANO Yoshinori
    Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
  • SUZUKI Katsuhiko
    Institute for Research on Earth Evolution & Precambrian Ecosystem Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)

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  • 「有機物・微生物・生態系の地球化学」という視点
  • ユウキブツ ビセイブツ セイタイケイ ノ チキュウ カガク ト イウ シテン

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Abstract

In this issue, latest knowledge on "Geochemistry of organic matter, microbes, and ecosystem" was compiled in ten review articles as a special volume of the Annual Meeting of the Geochemical Society of Japan, held at Hiroshima in September 2009. The key point of these studies is "molecular" and/or "elemental" scale techniques dealing with mainly organic and/or inorganic compounds including their isotopic compositions to elucidate roles of microbes in evolution and biogeochemical cycles. Though molecular analyses and cultivation experiments demonstrate a high diversity of microbial life, the relative abundances and ecological roles of archaea, bacteria, eukarya, and viruses have been largely unknown. We wish that this issue would act as useful media for the community and the new comers to this research field.

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  • Chikyukagaku

    Chikyukagaku 44 (4), 99-101, 2010

    The Geochemical Society of Japan

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