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  title info:
    title: Antarctic Terrestrial Microbiology
    sub title: Physical and Biological Properties of Antarctic Soils
  name:
    name part: Cowan, Don A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 328 p. 62 illus., 47 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book brings together many of the world’s leading experts in the fields of Antarctic terrestrial soil ecology, providing a comprehensive and completely up-to-date analysis of the status of Antarctic soil microbiology. Antarctic terrestrial soils represent one of the most extreme environments on Earth. Once thought to be largely sterile, it is now known that these diverse and often specialized extreme habitats harbor a very wide range of different microorganisms. Antarctic soil communities are relatively simple, but not unsophisticated. Recent phylogenetic and microscopic studies have demonstrated that these communities have well established trophic structuring, and play a significant role in nutrient cycling in these cold, and often dry desert ecosystems. They are surprisingly responsive to change, and potentially sensitive to climatic perturbation. Antarctic terrestrial soils also harbor specialized ‘refuge’habitats, where microbial communities develop under (and within) translucent rocks. These cryptic habitats offer unique models for understanding the physical and biological ‘drivers’ of community development, function and evolution.
  table of contents: General Introduction -- Bacterial Community Structures of Antarctic Soils -- Fungal Diversity in Antarctic Soils -- Invertebrates -- What Do We Know About Viruses in Terrestrial Antarctica? -- Microbiology of Eutropic Soil -- Fell-field Soil Microbiology -- Biological Soil Crusts -- Lithic Habitats -- Microbial Ecology of Geothermal Habitats in Antarctica -- Microbial life in Antarctic Permafrost Environments -- Primary Production and Links to Carbon Cycling in Antarctic Soils -- Climate Change and Microbial Populations -- Threats to Soil Communities: Human Impacts -- Antarctic Climate and Soils -- Antarctic Soil Properties and Soilscapes -- Origins of Antarctic Soils.
  note: edited by Don A. Cowan.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Microbial ecology
  subject:
    topic: Bacteriology
  subject:
    topic: Microbial genetics
  subject:
    topic: Microbial genomics
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Microbial Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Bacteriology
  subject:
    topic: Microbial Genetics and Genomics
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  classification: QR100-130
  classification: 579.17
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642452130
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45213-0
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    record creation date: 140307
    record change date: 20151204153749.0
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