Barth F. Smets
Technical University of Denmark
370 Papers
1.7K Citations
Barth F. Smets is an academic researcher from Technical University of Denmark. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chemistry & Nitrification. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 333 publications. Previous affiliations of Barth F. Smets include Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology & University of Santiago de Compostela.
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Papers
Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics
Stefanie Widder,Rosalind J. Allen,Thomas Pfeiffer,Thomas P. Curtis,Carsten Wiuf,William T. Sloan,Otto X. Cordero,Sam P. Brown,Babak Momeni,Wenying Shou,Helen Kettle,Harry J. Flint,Andreas F. Haas,Béatrice Laroche,Jan-Ulrich Kreft,Paul B. Rainey,Shiri Freilich,Stefan Schuster,Kim Milferstedt,Jan Roelof van der Meer,Tobias Groβkopf,Jef Huisman,Andrew Free,Cristian Picioreanu,Christopher Quince,Isaac Klapper,Simon Labarthe,Barth F. Smets,Harris H. Wang,Orkun S. Soyer +29 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ability to predict and manage the function of these highly complex, dynamically changing communities is limited, and that close coordination of experimental data collection and method development with mathematical model building is needed to achieve significant progress in understanding of microbial dynamics and function.
Physical constraints affecting bacterial habitats and activity in unsaturated porous media – a review
Dani Or,Dani Or,Barth F. Smets,Jon M. Wraith,Arnaud Dechesne,Arnaud Dechesne,Shmulik P. Friedman +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the role of hydrologic conditions on microbial activity and their role in controlling macroscopic fluxes within the vadose zone is presented.
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Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics
Stefanie Widder,Rosalind J. Allen,Thomas Pfeiffer,Thomas P. Curtis,Carsten Wiuf,William T. Sloan,Otto X. Cordero,Sam P. Brown,Babak Momeni,Wenying Shou,Helen Kettle,Harry J. Flint,Andreas F. Haas,B atrice Laroche,Jan-Ulrich Kreft,Paul B. Rainey,Shiri Freilich,Stefan Schuster,Kim Milferstedt,Jan Roelof van der Meer,Jef Huisman,Andrew Free,Cristian Picioreanu,Christopher Quince,Isaac Klapper,Simon Labarthe,Barth F. Smets,Harris H. Wang,Orkun S. Soyer,Tobias Grosskopf,Otto X. Cordero Sanchez +30 more
TL;DR: It is argued that addressing this challenge requires close coordination of experimental data collection and method development with mathematical model building, and that such integration is needed to achieve significant progress in understanding of MC dynamics and function.
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Broad host range plasmids can invade an unexpectedly diverse fraction of a soil bacterial community.
Uli Klümper,Leise Riber,Arnaud Dechesne,Analia Sannazzarro,Lars Hestbjerg Hansen,Søren J. Sørensen,Barth F. Smets +6 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that these broad host range plasmids have a hitherto unrecognized potential to transfer readily to very diverse bacteria and can, therefore, directly connect large proportions of the soil bacterial gene pool.
Aggregate size and architecture determine microbial activity balance for one-stage partial nitritation and anammox.
Siegfried E. Vlaeminck,Akihiko Terada,Barth F. Smets,Haydée De Clippeleir,Thomas Schaubroeck,Selin Bolca,Lien Demeestere,Jan Mast,Nico Boon,Marta Carballa,Willy Verstraete +10 more
TL;DR: The hypothesized granulation pathways include granule replication by division and budding and are driven by growth and/or decay based on species-specific physiology and by hydrodynamic shear and mixing.
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