Biosci 206 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

BIOSCI 206 University of Auckland BIOSCI 206 – Principles of Ecology Lecture Notes MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 1. All microbes are everywhere - Everything is everywhere, but the environment selects - Lourens Becking, inspired by Martinus Beijerinck - Botanist who pioneered work on microbial biogeography - Studied extremophiles in salt lakes and methane rich reservoirs - Organisms that thrived in high salt env turned up in that media Free-living microorganisms have the ability to get everywher...