berkeley.edu: Introduction to the Archaea: Life's extremists... Citat: "...Some live near rift vents in the deep sea at temperatures well over 100 degrees Centigrade. Others live in hot springs (such as the ones pictured above), or in extremely alkaline or acid waters. They have been found thriving inside the digestive tracts of cows, termites, and marine life where they produce methane. They live in the anoxic muds of marshes and at the bottom of the ocean, and even thrive in petroleum deposits deep underground..."
Oregon State University (2012, March 12). First consumption of abundant life form, Archaea, discovered. ScienceDaily Citat: "...Archaea that consume the greenhouse gas methane were in turn eaten by worms living at deep-sea cold seeps off Costa Rica and the West Coast of the United States. Archaea perform many key ecosystem services including being involved with nitrogen cycling, and they are known to be the main mechanism by which marine methane is kept out of the atmosphere...The consumption of Archaea by grazers, a process coined "archivory" by Thurber in the article..."
