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024 7 |a 10.1007/978-1-4020-6285-8  |2 doi 
040 |a Sistema de Bibliotecas del Tecnológico de Costa Rica 
245 1 0 |a Life in Extreme Environments  |c edited by Ricardo Amils Pibernat, Cynan Ellis-Evans, Helmut G. Hinghofer-Szalkay. 
250 |a 1st ed. 2007. 
260 # # |a Dordrecht :  |b Springer Netherlands :  |b Imprint: Springer,  |c 2007. 
300 |a VIII, 450 p.  |b online resource. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
505 0 |a 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 in Antarctic 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. 
650 0 |a Microbiology. 
650 0 |a Environmental sciences. 
650 0 |a Popular works. 
650 0 |a Plant science. 
650 0 |a Botany. 
650 0 |a Nature. 
650 0 |a Environment. 
650 0 |a Environmental engineering. 
650 0 |a Biotechnology. 
650 1 4 |a Microbiology. 
650 2 4 |a Environmental Science and Engineering. 
650 2 4 |a Popular Science, general. 
650 2 4 |a Plant Sciences. 
650 2 4 |a Popular Science in Nature and Environment. 
650 2 4 |a Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology. 
700 1 |a Amils Pibernat, Ricardo.  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Ellis-Evans, Cynan.  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Hinghofer-Szalkay, Helmut G.  |e editor. 
710 2 |a SpringerLink (Online service) 
773 0 |t Springer eBooks 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6285-8