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.
- ISBN13 9780412983610
- Publish Date 31 January 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Chapman and Hall
- Edition 1997 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 658
- Language English