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Record #199628:
Life at extremes: environments, organisms and strategies for survival / Elanor M. Bell, ed.
Title: | Life at extremes: environments, organisms and strategies for survival / Elanor M. Bell, ed. |
Author(s): | Bell, Elanor M., Thomas, David N. Pearce, David. Sattler, Birgit. Bagshaw, Elizabeth. Convey, Peter. Bell, Elanor M. Barnes, David K. A. Laybourn-Parry, Johanna. Hogg, Ian D. Newsham, Kevin K. Gómez, Felipe. |
Date: | 2012. |
Publisher: | Wallingford: Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI) |
Abstract: | Overview of life forms in inhospitable environments, presented in 27 chapters which examine ecological, biological and biogeochemical challenges faced by higher-level plants and animals, microorganisms and viruses. Discusses unifying themes between environments; life in areas of rapid seasonal fluctuation; and impacts of climate change and human activities. |
Keywords: | 574 -- Ecology. 574.2 -- Organisms, influence of environment. 574.2.045 -- Organisms, influence of temperature. 536.48 -- Low temperature phenomena in living things. 574.23 -- Habitat conditions, extreme. 58 -- Botany. 59 -- Zoology. 579 -- Microbiology and bacteriology. 550.47 -- Biogeochemistry. 551.588 -- Climate, effect of man and environment. F -- Biological sciences. (*2) -- Polar regions. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 574.2.045 : 536.48[2012] |
ISBN: | 9781845938147 |
SPRI record no.: | 199628 |
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