Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments

Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments examines ecosystems at the most extreme habitats and their interaction with the environment, which is key to understanding the role and function of microorganisms in nature, and consequently the implications of life at local and global scales. It also 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 many others. Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments is a valuable text for an interdisciplinary audience, including faculty and students working with extremophiles and/or microbial ecology and researchers in a number of fields, including astrobiologists, biologists, evolutionary scientists, astronomers, geochemists, and oceanographers. Explores, in detail, how microbial ecosystems thrive in extreme environmentsHighlights the relevance of extremophiles as model ecosystems to the study of microbial ecologyExamines how extreme ecosystems can help our search for life on other planets INDICE: 1. Terrestrial systems of the Arctic as a model for growth and survival at low temperatures 2. Geothermal Steam Vents of Hawaii 3. Solar Salterns as Model Systems for the Study of Halophilic Microorganisms in their Natural Environments 4. Great Salt Lakes as a Model Hypersaline System 5. Plants and Salt: Plant Response and Adaptations to Salinity 6. Microbial Ecology of the Namib Desert 7. Endolithic Microbial Communities as Model Systems 8. Survival of Subsurface Microbial Communities over Geological Times and the Implications for Astrobiology 9. Under what kind of life system could space life emerge?

• ISBN: 978-0-12-812742-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 450
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés