Environmental Microbiology provides a high profile vehicle for publication of the most innovative, original and rigorous research in the field. The scope of the Journal encompasses the diversity of current research on microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities and microbial interactions, including, but not limited to, the following:
the structure, activities and communal behaviour of microbial communities
microbial interactions and interactions with plants, animals and non-living environmental factors
population biology and clonal structure
microbes and surfaces
adhesion and biofouling
responses to environmental signals and stress factors
growth and survival
modelling and theory development
microbial community genetics and evolutionary processes
microbial physiological, metabolic and structural diversity
pollution microbiology
extremophiles and life in extreme and unusual little-explored habitats
primary and secondary production
element cycles and biogeochemical processes
microbially-influenced global changes
new technological developments in microbial ecology, in particular for the study of activities of microbial communities and of non-culturable microorganisms Interdisciplinary studies of fundamental problems are particularly welcome.