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 ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest bacteria cannot survive. However, there are places where life thrives, from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with life. But some of its most diverse and fascinating biomes are thriving in ...

A Nebraska research team recently published a study in Communications Earth and Environment that is one of the first to show ...

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 ...