دانلود کتاب Life in Extreme Environments

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Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Access to glacial and subglacial environments in the Solar System by melting probe technology....Pages 1-24
Exploration of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake: a concept paper on the development, organisation and execution of an experiment to explore, measure and sample the environment of a West Antarctic subglacial lake....Pages 25-43
Thermostable proteins as probe for the design of advanced fluorescence biosensors....Pages 45-54
Astrobiological significance of minerals on Mars surface environment....Pages 55-67
Industrial barrens: extreme habitats created by non-ferrous metallurgy....Pages 69-97
Viruses in extreme environments....Pages 99-113
Microbial ecology of submerged marine caves and holes characterized by high levels of hydrogen sulphide....Pages 115-124
Extremely halophilic archaea and the issue of long-term microbial survival....Pages 125-140
Planktonic microbial assemblages and the potential effects of metazooplankton predation on the food web of lakes from the maritime Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands....Pages 141-159
Fungi in Antarctica....Pages 161-175
Ecology and molecular adaptations of the halophilic black yeast Hortaea werneckii ....Pages 177-185
Ultraviolet radiation shapes seaweed communities....Pages 187-212
Life strategy, ecophysiology and ecology of seaweeds in polar waters....Pages 213-244
Life expansion in Sørkapp Land, Spitsbergen, under the current climate warming....Pages 245-249
Some views on plants in polar and alpine regions....Pages 251-263
Desiccation-tolerant plants in dry environments....Pages 265-275
Energy dependant plant stress acclimation....Pages 277-285
Post-capture investigations of hydrothermal vent macro-invertebrates to study adaptations to extreme environments....Pages 287-295
Adaptations to hypoxia in hydrothermal-vent and cold-seep invertebrates....Pages 297-313
How does the annelid Alvinella pompejana deal with an extreme hydrothermal environment?....Pages 315-339
Pressure and life: some biological strategies....Pages 341-355
Molecular evolution of haemoglobins of polar fishes....Pages 357-368
Metal detoxification and homeostasis in Antarctic Notothenioids. A comparative survey on evolution, expression and functional properties of fish and mammal metallothioneins....Pages 369-383
Predicting the impacts of climate change on the evolutionary adaptations of polar fish....Pages 385-397
Human challenges in polar and space environments....Pages 399-414
Hypometabolic induced state: a potential tool in biomedicine and space exploration....Pages 415-428
A proposed classification of environmental adaptation: the example of high altitude....Pages 429-435
The challenge of the food sufficiency through salt tolerant crops....Pages 437-450