Adair K, Schwartz E (2008) Evidence that ammonia-oxidizing archaea are more abundant than ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in soils along an elevation gradient in northern Arizona, USA.
A study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Medical University of Graz has found that the skin microbiome also contains Archaea, a type of extreme-loving microbe, and that the amount of it varies with age.
The study suggests that microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea, might one day be used to enhance methane production--perhaps by sustaining the energy a site can produce after fracturing ends.
But Edgcomb and others have found fungi, bacteria, and other single-celled organisms called archaea beneath the seafloor that use alternative biochemical reactions and alternative chemicals such as hydrogen, sulfur, and methane to produce energy.
Microbial species are all forms of life too small to be seen with the naked eye, including all single-celled organisms, such as bacteria and archaea, as well as certain fungi.