Course Description

65-429 Microbial Ecology W(2-3)

Microorganisms and transformations involved in the major geochemical cycles in marine, fresh water and terrestrial ecosystems. Factors which affect these activities are considered including nutrition, temperature, pressure, salinity, pH, and oxidation/reduction potential. Common techniques used in ecological research such as measurement of ATP and radioisotope measurement of mineralization are studied in the laboratory section. Department of Microbiology.

Prerequisites: 65-203.

1996-97 Undergraduate Calendar

Last revised: August 28, 1996. Contact: ccrenna@registrar.uoguelph.ca.