[PDF] Advances in Biochemical Engineering-Biotechnology: Biotechnics/ Wastewater Fiechter A. (ed.), Ghosh P., Hasegawa S.

The application of ecological principles will inevitably be necessary for the successful exploitation of some novel bioteehnological systems currently characterized by their unstable nature. The limited ability of microbial cells to influence their environment is a major restriction when cultures are exposed to dynamic environmental conditions. Thus an enhancement and understanding of microbial plasticity to interruptions or environmental perturbations is fundamental if those process environments, not amenable to strict control, are to be exploited.