Microbial ecology encompasses the study of diverse communities of microorganisms – including bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses and protozoa – inhabiting environments as varied as soil, water, plants ...

The subterranean environment of caves presents a unique laboratory for studying microbial ecology. In these isolated, oligotrophic habitats, microorganisms engage in diverse metabolic processes and ...

Microbial ecology is the study of microbes in the environment, their roles in ecosystem processes, and their interactions with one another and other biota. In this course, the Mountain Research ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

Recent research has expanded on the idea that the trees around us are far more complex than they appear.  Hidden beneath bark ...

The team behind a new world-leading conservation committee headed by Applied Microbiology International (AMI) is calling on global scientific and conservation communities to get on board to protect ...

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only ...

Virtually all multicellular organisms on Earth live in symbiotic associations with very large and complex microbial communities known as microbiomes. New research has just been published aimed at ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Seamounts are often covered with Fe and Mn oxides, known as ferromanganese (Fe–Mn) crusts. Future mining of these crusts is predicted to have ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Black bloom is a worldwide environmental problem. Sediment microbes play important roles in the process of black bloom. The dynamic change of ...

The researchers found that only Arctic diatoms can move through actual ice. Temperate diatoms (species from warmer waters) ...

An international team of researchers in Zurich and Oxford have identified a promising strategy to combat harmful bacteria in the gut using a combination of oral vaccines and microbiome-based ...