Life on Earth extends far beyond the vibrant rainforests and sunlit coral reefs. Deep below the surface, an extraordinary ...

It’s like a secret world. In 2014, Madden’s interest in microbial habitats led her to the laboratories of Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Rob Dunn, an ...

Zooplankton grazers, which interact closely with microbial communities, experienced reduced biomass in fragmented habitats, further exacerbating the decline in diversity and community evenness of ...

The interplay between microbes and their natural habitats – microbial ecology, life in extreme environments and the limits of life, diversity of habitats, symbioses between microbes and higher ...

In this course, the Mountain Research Station becomes our outdoor laboratory as we explore microbial habitats, quantify microbial contributions to key ecosystem processes, and discuss emerging tools ...

Freshwater organisms, common to oxygenated Great Lakes habitats, cannot survive here. Instead, these conditions favor salt-loving, low oxygen-tolerant microbial mats that blanket the lake floor ...

The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it ...

and how they can provide a framework for studying processes like microbial succession and community development. Despite their potential significance, the occurrence of these habitats in ...

This research is crucial for predicting how these ecosystems may evolve as global temperatures rise and habitats transform. One significant area of study has been the microbial community ...

The team examined microbial habitats in arid locations, at high altitude and in extremely elevated levels of ultraviolet radiation. By identifying patterns of habitability and life habitats that are ...

even at depths where the energy supply is orders of magnitude lower than enjoyed by organisms in habitats that see the sun. “Subsurface ecosystems may host more than half of all microbial cells ...

Scientists have identified regions on Mars where conditions might support microbial life beneath the ... similar environments suggest underground habitats such as Acidalia Planitia could hold ...