Concurrent users
Unlimited
Authorized users
Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied
Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks
Title
Their world [electronic resource] : a diversity of microbial environments / Christon J. Hurst, editors.
ISBN
9783319280714 (electronic book)
3319280716 (electronic book)
9783319280691
3319280694
Published
Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 381 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-28071-4 doi
Call Number
QR100
Dewey Decimal Classification
579/.17
Summary
This volume summarizes recent advances in environmental microbiology by providing fascinating insights into the diversity of microbial life that exists on our planet. The first two chapters present theoretical perspectives that help to consolidate our understanding of evolution as an adaptive process by which the niche and habitat of each species develop in a manner that interconnects individual components of an ecosystem. This results in communities that function by simultaneously coordinating their metabolic and physiologic actions. The third contribution addresses the fossil record of microorganisms, and the subsequent chapters then introduce the microbial life that currently exists in various terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Coverage of the geosphere addresses endolithic organisms, life in caves and the deep continental biosphere, including how subsurface microbial life may impact spent nuclear fuel repositories. The discussion of the hydrosphere includes hypersaline environments and arctic food chains. By better understanding examples from the micro biosphere, we can elucidate the many ways in which the niches of different species, both large and small, interconnect within the overlapping habitats of this world, which is governed by its microorganisms.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 11, 2016).
Series
Advances in environmental microbiology ; volume 1.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 3319280694
Towards a unified understanding of evolution, habitat and niche
Defining the concept of a species physiological boundaries and barriers
Microbes and the fossil record
selected topics in paleomicrobiology
Endolithic microorganisms and their habitats
The snotty and the stringy: energy for subsurface life in caves
Microbiology of the deep continental biosphere
Microbiology of the deep subsurface geosphere and its implications for used nuclear fuel repositories
Life in hypersaline environments
Microbes and the arctic ocean.
