Natural Products and Medicinal Plants Research

Microbial ecology

Microbial ecology (or environmental microbiology) is the ecology of microorganisms: their relationship with one another and with their environment. It concerns the three major domains of life—Eukaryota, Archaea, and Bacteria—as well as viruses. Natural microorganisms, by their omnipresence, impact the entire biosphere. The immensity of microorganisms' production is such that, even in the total absence of eukaryotic life, these processes would likely continue unchanged. As a consequence of the quantitative magnitude of microbial life. Microorganisms, by their omnipresence, impact the entire biosphere. Microbial life plays a primary role in regulating biogeochemical systems in virtually all of our planet's environments, including some of the most extreme, from frozen environments and acidic lakes, to hydrothermal e vents at the bottom of deepest oceans, and some of the most familiar, such as the human small intestine.