
Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments
Description
Key Features
- 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
Readership
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.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
- No. of pages: 228
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: May 29, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128127421
- eBook ISBN: 9780128127438
About the Series Volume Editors
Joseph Seckbach
Affiliations and Expertise
Pabulo Rampelotto
Affiliations and Expertise
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