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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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700 12 ‡aPearce, David.‡tSubglacial lakes.
700 12 ‡aSattler, Birgit.‡tCold Alpine regions.
700 12 ‡aBagshaw, Elizabeth.‡tGlacier surface habitats.
700 12 ‡aConvey, Peter.‡tPolar terrestrial environments.
700 12 ‡aBell, Elanor M.‡tWhat are extreme environments and what lives in them?.
700 12 ‡aBarnes, David K. A.‡tPolar Marine Ecosystems.
700 12 ‡aLaybourn-Parry, Johanna.‡tHigh altitude and latitude lakes.
700 12 ‡aHogg, Ian D.‡tPolar deserts.
700 12 ‡aNewsham, Kevin K.‡tHigh ultraviolet radiation environments.
700 12 ‡aGómez, Felipe.‡tExtreme environments on earth as analogues for life on other planets : astrobiology.
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