TY - CHAP AU - Karina Cenciani AU - Andre Mancebo Mazzetto AU - Daniel Renato Lammel AU - Felipe Jose Fracetto AU - Giselle Gomes Monteiro Fracetto AU - Leidivan Frazao AU - Carlos Cerri AU - Brigitte Feigl ED - Darko Matovic Y1 - 2011-09-09 PY - 2011 T1 - Genetic and Functional Diversities of Microbial Communities in Amazonian Soils Under Different Land Uses and Cultivation N2 - Biomass has been an intimate companion of humans from the dawn of civilization to the present. Its use as food, energy source, body cover and as construction material established the key areas of biomass usage that extend to this day. Given the complexities of biomass as a source of multiple end products, this volume sheds new light to the whole spectrum of biomass related topics by highlighting the new and reviewing the existing methods of its detection, production and usage. We hope that the readers will find valuable information and exciting new material in its chapters. BT - Biomass SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/16598 DO - 10.5772/16598 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -