Land Use: Reflection on Spatial Informatics, Agriculture and Development

Although considered structurally simple, bacteria are extremely diverse from a metabolic standpoint and are found almost everywhere on Earth in vast numbers-form living in jet fuel and on the rims of volcanoes to thriving in hydrothermal vents deep on the ocean floor. There are both beneficial and pathogenic bacteria- Beneficial bacteria are involved in such diverse processes as digestion in anima...