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  title info:
    title: Their World: A Diversity of Microbial Environments
  name:
    name part: Hurst, Christon J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 381 p. 63 illus., 36 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: edited by Christon J. Hurst.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Microbial ecology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Marine sciences
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Microbial Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Marine & Freshwater Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  classification: QR100-130
  classification: 579.17
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Advances in Environmental Microbiology, 1
  identifier: 9783319280714
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28071-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 160502
    record change date: 20160502161219.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-28071-4