Microbial ecology helps explain how ecosystems respond to environmental pressures.
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Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, genetic and chemical diversity, previously unknown to Science and Medicine.
A high-tech expedition to sample the ocean under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf confirms what the earliest explorers thought: everywhere we look we find microbes, scavenging any energy source available.
Rich and diverse microbiomes in our local environment are important for keeping us healthy.
A real-life experiment to mimic future conditions for soils affected by climate change suggests that some of the biggest impacts could be to ecosystems buried out of sight beneath our feet.
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Lecturer, Environmental and Conservation Science, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology, University of Otago
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Postdoctoral Researcher in marine microbiology, ETH Zurich
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Ecologist and Researcher, Flinders University
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Professor in Glaciology, University of Otago
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Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor in Plant Ecology, Murdoch University
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Senior Lecturer in Molecular Ecology, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor of microbial oceanography, Universität Wien
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Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, ETH Zurich
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Directeur du laboratoire de génomique des plantes et des algues à l'Institut de Biologie, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL; Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Microbial ecologist, University of Pretoria