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DESCRIPTION OF THE NICHE
Location
Physical Conditions
What are the conditions in your niche? Temperature, pressure, pH, moisture, etc.
Influence by Adjacent Communities (if any)
Is your niche close to another niche or influenced by another community of organisms?
Conditions under which the environment changes
Do any of the physical conditions change? Are there chemicals, other organisms, nutrients, etc. that might change the community of your niche.
WHO LIVES THERE?
The Microbes Present
You may refer to organisms by genus or by genus and species, depending upon how detailed the your information might be. If there is already a microbewiki page describing that organism, make a link to it.
Microbial Interactions
Describe any negative (competition) or positive (symbiosis) behavior
Do the microbes change their environment?
Do they alter pH, attach to surfaces, secrete anything, etc. etc.
Do the microbes carry out any metabolism that affects their environment?
Do they ferment sugars to produce acid, break down large molecules, fix nitrogen, etc. etc.
Current Research
Enter summaries of the most recent research. You may find it more appropriate to include this as a subsection under several of your other sections rather than separately here at the end. You should include at least FOUR topics of research and summarize each in terms of the question being asked, the results so far, and the topics for future study. (more will be expected from larger groups than from smaller groups)
References
1. Wilson, Michael. Bacteriology of Humans: an Ecological Perspective. Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
2. Wilson Michael. Microbial inhabitants of Humans: Their Ecology and Role in Health and Disease. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Edited by Patrick A. McGhee, Susan Lin, ____________________________________, students of Rachel Larsen
