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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