The intellectual focus of the Center for Microbial Ecology is to understand factors that influence the competitiveness, diversity and function of microorganisms in their natural and managed habitats.

Michigan State University website with extensive resources on microbes and the environments they live in, as well as links to other microbial ecology resources on the web. Includes the Microbe Zoo.

Gutbugs will include articles on probiotics, antibiotics, pathogenicity and bacterial interactions in the gut. Submitted articles welcomed.

Interactions between microbial inoculants and resident populations in the rhizosphere of agronomically important crops in typical soils.

A combined experimental and theoretical approach towards understanding the mechanisms determining microbial ecosystem dynamics in the photic zone of the oceans. Centered around an idealized conceptual/mathematical model, questions are addressed

Microbes and other life forms in extreme environments. (Although the title of this site implies that it is about space, this is an excellent resource about microbial ecology in unusual environmental conditions here on Earth.)

BacSim is an Individual-based Model (IbM) of bacterial populations, such as colonies and biofilms. Online computer simulations give a feel for what the program does. Source code and animations are also available.

About research on development of molecular and biochemical tools to retrieve information from environmental samples, microbial degradation of contaminants in BTEX, bacterial shifts and adaptation in changing conditions, and evolution of catabolic genes

Describes the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) programs concerned with microorganisms at a wide variety of sites around the world.

On-going reserach on microbial ecology carried out by the Nusslein Lab, University of Massachusetts, USA.

Research documents, publications, programs, projects, staff. Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany.

Microbial Ecology for students, public, news media, and scientists. Also serves as the primary forum of discussion for ISME Society members.

Possibly the only site dealing with bacteriophage virus ecology. The site includes a wealth of photos and drawings of these viruses as well as all you`d ever need to know about them.