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

• 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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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...

Table of Contents:

• What are extreme environments and what lives in them? / Elanor M. Bell and Terry V. Callaghan
• Past extremes / Barry H. Lomax
• Polar marine ecosystems / David K.A. Barnes
• Sea ice / David N. Thomas
• Polar terrestrial environments / Peter Convey
• High altitude and latitude lakes / Johanna Laybourn-Parry and Elanor M. Bell
• Subglacial lakes / David A. Pearce
• Cold alpine regions / Birgit Sattler, Barbara Post, Daniel Remias, Cornelius Lütz, Herbert Lettner and Roland Psenner
• Glacier surface habitats / Elizabeth A. Bagshaw, Marek Stibal, Alexandre M. Anesio, Chris Bellas, Martyn Tranter, Jon Telling and Jemma L. Wadham
• Polar deserts / Ian D. Hogg and Diana H. Wall / Hot desert environments / Boris Rewald, Amir Eppel, Oren Shelef, Amber Hill, Asfaw Degu, Avital Friedjung and Shimon Rachmilevitch
• Terrestrial hydrothermal environments / Don Cowan, Marla Tuffin, Inonge Mulako and James Cass
• Deep-sea hydrothermal vents / Richard A. Lutz
• High hydrostatic pressure environments / Florence Pradillon
• Deep sea / David Hughes
• Caves and karst environments / Natuschka M. Lee, Daniela B. Meisinger, Roman Aubrecht, Lubomir Kovacik, Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez, Sushmitha Baskar, Ramanathan Baskar, Wolfgang Liebl, Megan L. Porter and Annette Summers Engel
• The deep biosphere : deep subterranean and subseafloor habitats / Elanor M. Bell and Verena B. Heuer
• Acidic environments / Elly Spijkerman and Guntram Weithoof
• Alkaline environments / Elanor M. Bell
• Hypersaline environments / Terry J. McGenity and Aharon Oren
• Hypoxic environments / Stéphane Hourdez
• High ultraviolet radiation environments / Kevin K. Newsham and Andrew T. Davidson
• Life in a changing climate / Roland Psenner and Birgit Sattler
• Anthropogenic extreme environments / Adrian G. Glover and Lenka Neal
• Biotechnical applications of extremeophiles : promise and prospects / Rajesh Arora and Elanor M. Bell
• Extreme environments on Earth as analogues for life on other planets : Astrobiology / Felipe Gómez, Miloš Barták and Elanor M. Bell
• Concluding remarks / Elanor M. Bell.