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Life at extremes : environments, organisms and strategies for survival /

This book with twenty-eight chapters including the concluding remarks discusses the range of extreme environments that exist on earth, and the organisms that live in them and their evolutionary implications. Particularly, the book explores the following extreme environments: polar marine and terrest...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
Subjects:
Biotic communities.
Extreme environments.
Organisms.
Adaptation (Biology)
Acclimatization.
Survival.
Climatic changes.
Seasons.
Pollution.
Aquatic Biology and Ecology.
Water Resources.
Land Resources.
Meteorology and Climate.
Pollution and Degradation.
Plant Ecology.
Animal Ecology.
Microbial Ecology, (New March 2000)
Animals.
Plants.
Animal ecology.
Aquatic environment.
Arid lands.
Biotechnology.
Caves.
Climate.
Climatic change.
Cold zones.
Deserts.
Environmental impact.
Freshwater ecology.
Glacial lakes.
Glaciers.
Habitat destruction.
Habitats.
Hypersaline environments.
Marine ecology.
Marine environment.
Microbial ecology.
Microorganisms.
Plant ecology.
Polar regions.
Seas.
Seasonal variation.
Ultraviolet radiation.
Electronic books.
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