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Microbes live in an amazing range of habitats, from laboratory distilled-water carboys, through freshwater and marine environments, to saturated brines like the Great Salt Lake or the Dead Sea. They grow at temperatures of −5°C to over 118°C; Pyrodictium cultures are sometimes incubated in autoclaves! Organisms are known to grow at pH 0 (0.5 M sulfuric acid) and at pH 11 (Drano). Very often, these extremes are combined: Acidianus grows in 0.1 M sulfuric acid at 80°C! Some bacteria live in the water droplets that make up the clouds, and others live in deep-underground aquifers or deep-sea sediments. Many microbes live in intimate symbiosis with other creatures, in complex communities, or as permanent intracellular “guests.”

In fact, if you are on or around Earth and find liquid water, there is almost certainly something living in it (Fig. 1.5).

Figure 1.5 Moose Pool, Yellowstone National Park, pH ~2, 80°C. doi:10.1128/9781555818517.ch1.f1.5