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Microecology is a large field which includes many topics such as evolution and creation, biodiversity, exobiology, ecology, bioremediation, recycling, and food microbiology. There is an estimated 10,000,000 different type of microbes that live on this planet of which fewer than 4500 have been described according to the General Biodiversity Assessment (1) http://www.isme-microbes.org/whatis/biodiversity.

Without a microscope, the human eye can only see objects larger than one-tenth of a millimeter long, but given the right conditions, you might be able to see a human egg. Looking down at these tiny objects, you are looking at the edge of an entire world of creatures invisible to the naked eye. In this land around us, tiny microbes live out their tiny lives. Like us, they eat, move and reproduce. They interact with their world, obtaining food and energy from the environment, but also changing it in some very large ways. With millions of different kinds of microbes existing today, these organisms cover every part of the Earth. Over the billions of years that they have existed on the planet, microbes have adapted to fit their environments, developing ways of gathering food and energy that are still used by most organisms today. (2) http://microbes.org/microscopic-worlds