Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1116 g
Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1116 g
ISBN: 978-90-481-7596-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
This book provides an intriguing look at how life can adapt to many different extreme environments. It addresses the limits for life development and examines different strategies used by organisms to adapt to different extreme environments.
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- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
- Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenreproduktion, Verbreitung, Genetik
- Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Industrielle Biotechnologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
Weitere Infos & Material
Access to glacial and subglacial environments in the Solar System by melting probe technology.- Exploration of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake: a concept paper on the development, organisation and execution of an experiment to explore, measure and sample the environment of a West Antarctic subglacial lake.- Thermostable proteins as probe for the design of advanced fluorescence biosensors.- Astrobiological significance of minerals on Mars surface environment.- Industrial barrens: extreme habitats created by non-ferrous metallurgy.- Viruses in extreme environments.- Microbial ecology of submerged marine caves and holes characterized by high levels of hydrogen sulphide.- Extremely halophilic archaea and the issue of long-term microbial survival.- Planktonic microbial assemblages and the potential effects of metazooplankton predation on the food web of lakes from the maritime Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands.- Fungi in Antarctica.- Ecology and molecular adaptations of the halophilic black yeast Hortaea werneckii.- Ultraviolet radiation shapes seaweed communities.- Life strategy, ecophysiology and ecology of seaweeds in polar waters.- Life expansion in Sørkapp Land, Spitsbergen, under the current climate warming.- Some views on plants in polar and alpine regions.- Desiccation-tolerant plants in dry environments.- Energy dependant plant stress acclimation.- Post-capture investigations of hydrothermal vent macro-invertebrates to study adaptations to extreme environments.- Adaptations to hypoxia in hydrothermal-vent and cold-seep invertebrates.- How does the annelid Alvinella pompejana deal with an extreme hydrothermal environment?.- Pressure and life: some biological strategies.- Molecular evolution of haemoglobins of polar fishes.- Metal detoxification and homeostasis inAntarctic Notothenioids. A comparative survey on evolution, expression and functional properties of fish and mammal metallothioneins.- Predicting the impacts of climate change on the evolutionary adaptations of polar fish.- Human challenges in polar and space environments.- Hypometabolic induced state: a potential tool in biomedicine and space exploration.- A proposed classification of environmental adaptation: the example of high altitude.- The challenge of the food sufficiency through salt tolerant crops.
