Microbial Ecology
Ecology is the scientific discipline focused on the study of ecological systems and the living and non-living processes that support them.
Microbial ecology is a sub-discipline of ecology focused on microorganisms (that is, such microbes as bacteria, viruses, some algae and protozoa, and prions), their life cycles, niches and habitats. Due to the substantial numbers of microorganisms on Earth, these small organisms exercise mind-boggling influences, effects and impacts on other organisms (including humankind) and on the ecological systems they inhabit
Microbial ecology is central to our understanding of human, plant and animal disease and well-being as well as the condition and functioning of all ecological systems.
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Marine microbes
Introduction The term 'Marine microbes' encompasses all microscopic organisms generally found in saltwater. Most micro-organisms are acellular and fall into... More »
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Large-scale trickle filters
Large-scale trickle filters are wastewater treatment facilities for biochemically oxidizing biodegradable substances present in municipal or industrial wastewater. They consist... More »
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Atlantic hydrothermal vent life
Explorers on NOAA expedition discover chemosynthetic shrimp, tubeworms together for first time at hydrothermal vent, also first live vent tubeworms seen in Atlantic waters... More »
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Arctic marine environments
This is Section 10.2.1 of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Lead Author: Michael B. Usher; Contributing Authors:Terry V. Callaghan, Grant... More »
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Extremophile
An extremophile is an organism adapted to unusual limits of one or more abiotic factors in the environment. Some of the extreme conditions are temperature, pH, high salinity, high... More »
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Antimicrobial resistance to drugs
Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi, to grow in the presence of a chemical (drug) that would normally kill... More »
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Amino acid
An amino acid is any of a class of organic acids, whose molecules consists of a terminal amine group, an organic side chain (or simply a hydrogen atom) bonded to one of the... More »
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Climate Adaptation of Rice
Symbiogenics: A New Strategy for Reducing Climate Impacts on Plants Rice–which provides nearly half the daily calories for the world’s population–could... More »
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Lyme Disease-Carrying Ticks and Western Lizards
Lyme Disease-Carrying Tick Numbers Plummet in Absence of Western Lizards California areas without lizards had significant drop in tick populations Areas in California where... More »
Benthos
Last Updated on 2012-05-24 at 10:26
Benthos is one of three major ecological groups into which marine organisms are divided, the other two being the nekton and the plankton. The benthos are organisms and... More »
Coral diseases
Last Updated on 2012-05-10 at 00:03
Coral diseases and diseases to other reef organisms are having significant, negative impacts on the structure, functioning and appearance of coral reefs. The number,... More »
Lebônê Dirt-Powered Battery
Last Updated on 2012-05-07 at 19:11
Lebônê Dirt-Powered Battery
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500 million people in Africa live without power.
How does it work: Ordinary soil contains large number of ... More »
Proterozoic
Last Updated on 2012-05-07 at 17:43
The Proterozoic eon is a time in the Earth's history that occurred from 2.5 billion to 543 million years ago. Many important events in the geologic history of the Earth... More »
Water pollution
Last Updated on 2012-05-03 at 14:39
Water pollution is the contamination of natural water bodies by chemical, physical, radioactive or pathogenic microbial substances. Adverse alteration of water quality... More »
Agriculture II
Last Updated on 2012-04-29 at 12:59
Humans began to cultivate food crops about 10,000 years ago. Prior to that time, hunter-gatherers secured their food as they traveled in the nearby environment. When they... More »
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