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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bell, Elanor (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
Subjects:	Acclimatization. Adaptation (Biology) Biotic communities. Climatic changes. Extreme environments. Organisms. Pollution. Seasons. Survival. Animal Ecology. Aquatic Biology and Ecology. Land Resources. Meteorology and Climate. Microbial Ecology, (New March 2000) Plant Ecology. Pollution and Degradation. Water Resources. Animal ecology. Animals. 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. Plants. Polar regions. Seas. Seasonal variation. Ultraviolet radiation. Electronic books.
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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.