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Tardigrades as Environmental Indicators part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This essay was written by Amber, a high school senior who won the Young Naturalist Award in 2001 for her research on tardigrades (also known as water bears) as environmental bioindicators. Amber ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Diversity, Microbiology, Biology, Ecology:Metabolism
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Red Tide Kills Fish, Fouls Gulf Coast part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This CBS news article reports a toxic algae bloom that spread along the Texas Gulf coast in 2000, killing millions of fish and fouling beaches with their remains. The article explains how red tide ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology:Microbiology and Health, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Biology:Microbiology
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Ocean Environments: Coastal and Estuarine
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Ocean Environments: Coastal and Estuarine
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Red Tide Closes N.E. Fish Beds part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This two-part CBS news article reports the New England red tide infestation of 2005, one of the worst in decades. The article explains how the bloom, caused by the toxic algae Alexandrium, affected ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology:Microbiology and Health, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Biology:Microbiology
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Ocean Environments: Coastal and Estuarine
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Ocean Environments: Coastal and Estuarine
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Domoic Acid Fact Sheet part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online fact sheet illustrates the transfer of domoic acid through the food web. Domoic acid is a nerve toxin produced by a naturally occurring Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) usually (but not always) ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Water Column, Biology:Microbiology, Microbiology:Microbiology and Health, Biology:Ecology:Principles, Habitats:Marine
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Ocean Environments: Coastal and Estuarine
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Ocean Environments: Coastal and Estuarine
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Utah Microbes May Have Come From Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article reports that halophiles of the Great Salt Lake produce pigments that shield their DNA from sun damage and enzymes that allow them to embrace hypersaline environments. The majority of ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Astrobiology, Microbiology, Ecology:Metabolism, Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism
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Extreme Environments: Hypersaline
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Extreme Environments: Hypersaline
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Intimate Relationships Among the Very Small part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This image-rich BioMedia article features a micro-naturalist's observation of microbial relationships. Topics include mutualism, commensalisms, parasitism, predator/prey, and scavenging. ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Microbiology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Biology
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The Lives of Micro-organisms: A MicroNaturalist's Handbook part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web site highlights a new series of photo essays featuring observations you can make with a good compound microscope, a sense of the mysteries of life waiting to be discovered, some patience, ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Diversity, Microbiology, Biology, Ecology:Metabolism
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Bring Um Back Alive: Techniques for Finding and Studying Living Microorganisms part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This image-rich BioMedia article features tips from a micro-naturalist about finding and studying microorganisms. Topics include sampling micro-life communities, care of collected samples, more ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology, Diversity, Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology , Methods of Microbiology :Field Methods , Microscopy, Culturing Methods, Biology, Ecology:Metabolism
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Glorious Guts part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This image-rich BioMedia article features a micro-naturalist's account of protistan symbionts of termites. It examines the relationships between the symbionts and their hosts and offers ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Microbiology, Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology :Microscopy, Biology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
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Vorticella: Life on a Spring part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This image-rich BioMedia article features a micro-naturalist's observation of Vorticella isolated from a ditch on a country road. The article describes the appearance of Vorticella and details ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Evolution, Microbiology, Biology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
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