title: The plate debate: cultivable communities have no utility in contemporary environmental microbial ecology.
authors.affiliation: National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK. k.ritz@cranfield.ac.uk
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ritz
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000166:cytology* / Q000235:genetics; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D046508:Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D004463:Ecology; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D005658:Fungi / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics