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Adenosine triphosphate and guanosine triphospate determinations in intertidal sediments / D.M. Karl -- Analysis of methods for the quantitative recovery of bacteria sorbed onto marine sediments / M. Scheraga, M. Meskill, and C.D. Litchfield -- A modified spread plate technique for the determinations of concentrations of viable heterophobic bacteria / Michael Young -- Evaluation of the most probable number technique for the enumeration of fecal coliforms and Pseudomonas aruginosa in sediment / P.L. Seyfried and A.R.G. Owen -- Field evaluation of methods for the detection of enteric viruses in marine sediments / C.P. Gerba ... {et al.} -- Determing the sediment distribution of methanogenic bacteria by direct fluorescent antibody methodology / T.E. Ward and J.I. Frea -- Lipid analysis of sediments for microbial biomass and community structure / D.C. White ... {et al.} -- Techniques of investigating the role of anaerobic bacteria in estuarine sediments / R.J. Parkes ... {et al.} -- Nitrogen transformation in stream sediments : 15N studies / L. Chatarpaul and J.B. Robinson -- Application of the 14C organic mineralization technique to marine sediments / C.D. Litchfield ... {et al.} -- Three experimental regimes in the study of sediment microbial ecology / R.R. Christian and W.J. Wiebe -- Estimation of microbial activities in lake sediments by measurement of sediment gas evolution / T.E. Ward and J.I. Frea -- Methodology for determination of rates of microbial transformation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments / L.R. Schwall and S.E. Herbes.