Limited Offer
Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments
- 1st Edition, Volume 2 - May 29, 2019
- Editors: Joseph Seckbach, Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 7 4 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 7 4 3 - 8
Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments, Second Edition examines ecosystems at the most extreme habitats and their interaction with the environment, providing a key element i… Read more
Purchase options
Institutional subscription on ScienceDirect
Request a sales quoteModel Ecosystems in Extreme Environments, Second Edition examines ecosystems at the most extreme habitats and their interaction with the environment, providing a key element in our understanding of the role and function of microorganisms in nature. The book highlights current topics in the field, such as biodiversity and the structure of microbial communities in extreme environments, the effects of extreme environmental conditions on microbial ecosystems, and ecological and evolutionary interactions in extreme environments, among other topics. It will be a valuable text for faculty and students working with extremophiles and/or microbial ecology and researchers, including astrobiologists, biologists, evolutionary scientists, astronomers, geochemists and oceanographers.
- Explores, in detail, how microbial ecosystems thrive in extreme environments
- Highlights the relevance of extremophiles as model ecosystems to the study of microbial ecology
- Examines how extreme ecosystems can help our search for life on other planets
Faculty and students working with extremophiles and/or microbial ecology, researchers in many branches of both life sciences and space/planetary sciences will be interested, including astrobiologists, biologists, evolutionary scientists, astronomers, geochemists, oceanographers, etc.
1. Terrestrial systems of the Arctic as a model for growth and survival at low temperatures
Corien Bakermans
2. Geothermal Steam Vents of Hawai
Richard Weiss Bizzoco
3. Solar Salterns as Model Systems for the Study of Halophilic Microorganisms in their Natural Environments
Aharon Oren
4. Great Salt Lakes as a Model Hypersaline System
Bonnie Baxter
5. Plants and Salt: Plant Response and Adaptations to Salinity
Nirit Bernstein
6. Microbial Ecology of the Namib Desert
Thulani A. Makhalanyane
7. Endolithic Microbial Communities as Model Systems
Jocelyne DiRuggiero
8. Survival of Subsurface Microbial Communities over Geological Times and the Implications for Astrobiology
Helga Stan-Lotter
9. Under what kind of life system could space life emerge?
Kenji Ikehara
- No. of pages: 228
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 2
- Published: May 29, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128127421
- eBook ISBN: 9780128127438
JS
Joseph Seckbach
PR