Microbial life on façades / by Wolfgang Karl Hofbauer, Georg Gärtner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hofbauer, Wolfgang Karl, author.

Gärtner, Georg, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microbiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 323 p. 185 illus., 110 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

Summary:

This book provides a detailed overview of the microorganisms that form the initial growth on the exterior façades of buildings. It deals with the ecophysiological properties that characterize the basic conditions under which these microorganisms can occur on façades. In addition to an identification key for the types and forms of microorganisms, this book provides a detailed description of the individual organisms, stating their ecological range. Furthermore, the various ecological parameters are discussed in short chapters. Measures to prevent and combat the colonization of façades with microorganisms are also addressed. Specialists (architects, construction experts), builders, scientists and master students can find all the information they need on facade algae and fungi here. The authors Dr. Wolfgang Karl Hofbauer is chief scientist (taxonomy, ecophysiology and genetics) of the department Environment, Sensors and Hygiene at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics. His professional research areas are taxonomy and ecophysiology of organisms on building surfaces, about which he did his doctorate in 2008, genetic barcoding of building relevant (micro)organisms and greening of building surfaces. Retired Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c Georg Gärtner worked and researched at the University of Innsbruck on the cultivation and taxonomy of soil-and airborne. algae for many years. In 2012, Prof. Gärtner was awarded an honorary doctorate by Sofia University for his services to the cooperation in algal studies between the botanical institutes of the University of Innsbruck and the University of Sofia.

Contents:

Introduction: Façades colonized by aerophytic microorganisms

Façades as a functional part of a building

The environment façade

History of aerobiology, in respect of research on man-made surfaces

Tools/Methods

Experimental investigations and the assessment of primary growth of microorganisms on modern buiding structures

Assessment of starter germ load of materials. Germ counts for specimens

Culture based taxonomic analysis

Taxonomy

Pre-culture investigation

Sample collection and preparation

Establishment of pure cultures

Background concentrations

Air germ measurement

Sedimentation

Germ load of precipitation

Ecophysiologic data

Testing methods in respect of ths susceptibility of building products against colonisation by microorganisms

Aerophytic organisms colonizing façades: their diversity and taxonomy with recognition of ecophysiological characteristics

Regnum Eubacteria – non oxygen phosynthetic active groups

Regnum Archaea

Division Rhodophyta – Class Rhodophyceae

Division Stramenopiles (Heterokonta), Class Bacillariophyceae

Division Stramenopiles (Heterokonta), Class Xanthophyceae

Division Stramenopiles (Heterokonta), Class Eustigmatophyceae

Division (Infraregnum) Chlorophyta, Class Chlorophyceae

Division (Infraregnum) Streptophyta

Class Bryopsida – Musci

Class Pteridopsida

Subregnum Eumycota

Division Archemycota

Class Zygomycetes

Division Ascomycota

Class Ascomycetes

Division Basidiomycota

Class Basidiomycetes

Form of organisation Lichenes

Formgroup Ascolichenes

Synopsis

Summary

Acknowledgements

Glossary 1

Glossary 2 (important technical terms)

Literature.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-662-54833-X

OCLC:

1244623215