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Extremophilic Bacteria and Microbial Diversity part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online enhancement chapter of Raven and Johnson's Biology, a textbook for undergraduate majors, examines the many prokaryotic organisms that inhabit "extreme ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Principles, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology:Ecology:Principles, Biology:Evolution:Patterns, Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Molecular Biology, Microbiology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Cold, Extremely Hot, High Pressure, Acidic, Hypersaline, Alkaline
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Cold, Extremely Hot, High Pressure, Acidic, Hypersaline, Alkaline
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
New research challenges prevailing theory of microbial diversity part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this web article, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley sampled the microbe Sulfolobus islandicus from acidic hot springs across the world to study microbe diversity. The article ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution, Evolution:Principles, Biology:Diversity, Microbiology, Ecology:Metabolism, Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot, Acidic
Grade Level: General Public
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot, Acidic
Grade Level: General Public
Ferroplasma acidarmanus part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web page provides a description and photograph of Ferroplasma acidarmanus, a newfound archaeon microbe that eats iron, lives in acid-drenched conditions, and has been identified as a chief ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology, Biogeochemistry
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Acidic
Grade Level: General Public, Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Acidic
Grade Level: General Public, Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Life in extreme environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Nature insight review article "Life in extreme environments" is a detailed description of bacterial prevalence in extreme environments. ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology:Ecology:Biofilms, Biology, Biogeochemistry, Geoscience:Geology, Biology:Microbiology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources
Extreme Environments: Hypersaline, High Radiation, Extremely Hot, Anhydrous, Anoxic, Extremely Cold, High Pressure, Alkaline, Acidic
Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources
Extreme Environments: Hypersaline, High Radiation, Extremely Hot, Anhydrous, Anoxic, Extremely Cold, High Pressure, Alkaline, Acidic
Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14)
Microbial Ecology of an Extreme Acidic Environment, the Tinto River part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This journal article analyzes the microbial ecology of the Rio Tinto, an extreme environment with a rather constant acidic pH and high concentration of heavy metals. Molecular ecology techniques are ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Molecular Biology, Biogeochemistry, Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Microbiology, Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology :Molecular Methods, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Oxidation/Reduction Reactions, Aqueous Solutions, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources, Research Results
Extreme Environments: Acidic
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources, Research Results
Extreme Environments: Acidic
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Microbial Leaching of Metals part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 16-page book chapter details microbial leaching of metals. Sections include an introduction, terminology, historical background, principles of microbial metal leaching, microbial diversity in ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Biogeochemistry, Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Geochemistry:Oxidation/Reduction Reactions, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources
Extreme Environments: Acidic, Altered by Humans
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources
Extreme Environments: Acidic, Altered by Humans
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Heavy Metal Mining Using Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 29-page journal article is a review of heavy metal mining using microbes. It details the history of biomining, general characteristics of biomining microbes, biodiversity of biomining microbes, ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Biogeochemistry, Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Geochemistry:Oxidation/Reduction Reactions, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources
Extreme Environments: Acidic, Altered by Humans
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources
Extreme Environments: Acidic, Altered by Humans
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Life at the Extremes part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This news source provides journalists with information about scientist Linda Amaral Zettler and the extreme environment of the Rio Tinto. The resource explains that the Rio Tinto, once considered ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Diversity, Diversity:Censuses, Biology:Microbiology, Ecology:Metabolism, Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources
Extreme Environments: Acidic
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources
Extreme Environments: Acidic
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Rio Tinto estuary (Spain): 5000 years of pollution part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This journal article examines the major sources of pollution in the Rio Tinto estuary of southern Spain. The introduction includes a historical perspective of the region, description of the Rio Tinto ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Biogeochemistry, Microbiology, Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology :Field Methods , Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Acidic
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Acidic
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14)
Huelva Province: Rio Tinto Mines part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web site offers information about the Rio Tinto in Andalucia, Spain. It describes the opencast mine structures, landscape, rich history, and regional influence of the Rio Tinto mines. Part of a ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology, Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Acidic
Grade Level: General Public, College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Acidic
Grade Level: General Public, College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)