Life in Extreme Environments: Insights in Biological Capability

0545725 - BÚ 2022 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Pichrtová, M. - Hejduková, E. - Nedbalová, Linda - Elster, Josef
How to survive winter? Adaptation and acclimation strategies in eukaryotic algae from polar terrestrial ecosystems.
Life in Extreme Environments: Insights in Biological Capability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 - (di Prisco, G.; Edwards, H.; Elster, J.; Huiskes, A.), s. 101-125. Ecological Reviews. ISBN 978-1-108-72420-3
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTAIN19139
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 emphasize that understanding these systems is important for increasing our knowledge and utilizing their potential, but this remains an understudied area. Given the threat to these environments and their biota caused by climate change and human impact, this timely book also addresses the urgency to document these systems. It will help graduate students and researchers in conservation, marine biology, evolutionary biology, environmental change and astrobiology better understand how life exists in these environments and their susceptibility or resilience to change.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322384