Summary: Applied And Environmental Microbiology
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1.1 Microbial ecology
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What is microbial ecology?
The study of the function of microorganisms, their interaction with eachother and their interaction with the environment -
What does microbial ecology look at?
What microbes do, why they do it and with what and whom they do it -
What are different resources that govern microbial growth in nature?
Carbon, nitrogen, electron donors and acceptors and macronutrients -
What are different conditions that govern microbial growth in nature?
Temperature, water potential, pH, O2, light presence and osmotic conditions -
What is species richness?
The total number of species present -
What is species abundance?
The proportion of each species in an ecosystem -
What layers does an aquatic environment generally consist of?
Epilimnion, thermocline zone and hypolimnion -
What is the thermocline zone?
The layer where the temperature decreases rapidly with depth -
What are oxygen minimum zones?
Persistent layers in the water column that have low a oxygen concentration -
What are deep sediments of water characterized by?
Extremely low fermentation and methanogenesis
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