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Science 11 June 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5677, pp. 1634 - 1637
DOI: 10.1126/science.1097394


Abstract
Full Text 		Interactions and Self-Organization in the Soil-Microbe Complex
I. M. Young and J.W. Crawford

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  • Movie 1 File SoilVis.avi
    A Fly through of a virtual soil ecosystem. The physical habitat of soil is recreated using a 3D fractal algorithm coded using C and OpenGLTM - created by Alasdair Houston in SIMBOS, University of Abertay. The heterogeneity of the physical ecosystem can be altered by changing the fractal dimension, and seeding virtual bacteria. The fly-through shows a random distribution of respiring bacteria in a heterogeneous habitat, from the perspective of a bacterial predator.

  • Movie 2 File AbertayHiResCT.meg
    The microstructure of soil captured at 20-micrometer resolution, using the GeoSoilEnviro lab of the Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources (GSE-CARS), Argonne National Laboratory, at Chicago University, captured by Prof Iain Young (Abertay University) & Dr Mark Rivers (University of Chicago). A sequence of connected slices is shown.

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