Life in Extreme Environments: Insights in Biological Capability

0545730 - BÚ 2022 GB eng M - Monography Chapter
di Prisco, G. - Huiskes, A. H. L. - Elster, Josef - Edwards, H. G. M.
Introduction.
Life in Extreme Environments: Insights in Biological Capability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 - (di Prisco, G.; Edwards, H.; Elster, J.; Huiskes, A.), s. 1-5. Ecological Reviews. ISBN 978-1-108-72420-3
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : extreme environments * biodiversity * ecophysiology
OECD category: Ecology

From deep ocean trenches and the geographical poles to outer space, organisms can be found living in remarkably extreme conditions. This book provides a captivating account of these systems and their extraordinary inhabitants, ‘extremophiles’. A diverse, multidisciplinary group of experts discuss responses and adaptations to change, biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions, polar environments, and life and habitability, including searching for biosignatures in the extraterrestrial environment. The editors emphasise that understanding these systems is important for increasing our knowledge and utilising their potential, but this remains anunderstudied area. Given the threat to these environment sand their biota caused by climate change and human impact, this timely book also addresses the urgency to document the sesystems.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322388