This book presents a comprehensive collection of articles illustrating the importance of microbial community structure and function for ecosystem sustainability and environmental reclamation. It addresses a diverse range of topics, including microbial diversity, physiology, genomics, ecosystem function, interaction, metabolism, and the fruitful use of microbial communities for crop productivity and environmental remediation.

Chapter 1: Soil Microbiology in the coming decades (Adhya).- Chapter 2: Molecular genomic techniques for identification of soil microbial community structure and dynamics (Dhiraj Paul).- Chapter 3: "Omics" tools in Soil microbiology: The state of the art (Angana Sarkar).- Chapter 4: Diversity of sulfur oxidizing and reducing microbes in diverse ecosystems (Upendra Kumar).- Chapter 5: Microbial cycling of arsenic in the aquifers of Bengal delta plain (BDP) (Punyasloke Bhadury).- Chapter 6: Bacterial communities of Uranium contaminated tailing ponds and their interactions with different heavy metals (Paltu Kumar Dhal).- Chapter 7: Microbial cycling of greenhouse gases and their impact on climate change (Santosh Ranjan Mohanty).- Chapter 8: Microbe Mediated Bioremediation: An Ecofriendly Sustainable Approach for Environmental Clean-Up (Seema Sangwan).- Chapter 9: Remediation of oily sludge and oil contaminated soil from petroleum industry.- Chapter 10: Microbial soil enzymes(Swati Joshi).- Chapter 11: Biosurfactants in soil bioremediation (Vivek Rangarajan).