Microbiology of Extreme Soils
Publication year: 2008
: 978-3-540-74231-9
This volume provides an excellent introduction to the study of extreme soil micro-biology, and a variety of the challenging and fascinating environments that Earth-bound microbes face. Some are natural, and some are the result of human activity, and all of them have lessons to teach us about life’s adaptations within the “extreme” hori-zons of terrestrial soils. What’s more, each of these chapters (including the chapter on the soils of Mars by Ronald L. Crawford and David A. Newcombe) can give us insights into strategies that may make life possible beyond the safe confines of our present-day biosphere, to other worlds in this solar system and beyond
: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Bioremediation, Desert life adaptation, Extraterrestrial soils, Halotolerant microbes, Peatland microbiology, Permafrost, Permafrost soils, bacteria, biodiversity, ecosystems, environment, micro-organism, microbiology, pollution, soil
