Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments (Volume 2) (Astrobiology Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond, Volume 2)

Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments examines ecosystems at the most extreme habitats and their interaction with the environment, which is key to understanding the role and function of microorganisms in nature, and consequently the implications of life at local and global scales. It also highlights current topics in the field, such as biodiversity and the structure of microbial communities in extreme environments, the effects of extreme environmental conditions on microbial ecosystems, and ecological and evolutionary interactions in extreme environments, among many others. Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments is a valuable text for an interdisciplinary audience, including faculty and students working with extremophiles and/or microbial ecology and researchers in a number of fields, including astrobiologists, biologists, evolutionary scientists, astronomers, geochemists, and oceanographers. Explores in detail how microbial ecosystems thrive in extreme environments Highlights the relevance of extremophiles as model ecosystems to the study of microbial ecology Examines how extreme ecosystems could help our search for life on other planets

• | Author: Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto
• | Publisher: Academic Press
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0128127422
• | ISBN-13: 9780128127421