| Dr. Joan Slonczewski Office: |
BIOL 272 Microbial Ecology |
Spring Semester
TR, |
| Microbes are organisms too small to be seen by the naked eye. Yet microbes define every ecosystem; in fact, Earth's upper atmosphere and subterranean depths contain microbes alone. Microbes produce and consume all our atmospheric nitrogen, and much of our oxygen and carbon dioxide. This course surveys the essential ecological roles of microbes in our biosphere, as well as human applications in industry and environmental management. |
