Life in Extreme Environments
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2007. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6285-8 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.