BIOLOG / ECOPLATES – Methods that measure the capacity of a microbial sample to degrade a variety of many different carbon compounds. Read review of technique here.
Ordination techniques – a family of methods for identifying relationships between ecological communities OR for describing complex environmental gradients including multiple factors. Good information here
Redox Ladder – the predictable sequence of microbial metabolic pathways that occur with time following flooding of a soil or with depth below the soil/water interface.
PLFA – phospholipid fatty acids
Pyrosequencing-
SEED.org-
sequence space-
Shotgun sequencing-
16sRNA –
tRFLP – terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism – check out the Wikipedia tRFLP entry
Unifrac-
Winogradsky column: see Wikipedia entry for this term . Here is a handout on how to make a Winogradsky_column.