Microbes: The Foundation Stone of the Biosphere

Book Overview

Part I: Recognizing the Role of Microorganisms in our World

Chapter 1: Our living world rests upon a foundation of microorganisms: the constant struggle for habitat and niche

Author: Christon J. Hurst

Chapter 2: Darwin's Science's Impact on the Evolution of the Microbiological Sciences

Author: Kenneth M. Noll

Chapter 3: Microbes and marine sediments: a life-long relationship on Earth's Biosphere

Author: Jer?nimo Pan

Chapter 4: The Democracy of Dirt: relating Micro-scale dynamics to macro-scale ecosystem function

Author: Joshua Schimel

Part II: Microbial life persists within even the most extreme environments

Chapter 5: The concept of evanescent microbial ecosystems in Earth's atmosphere

Author: Dale Warren Griffin

Chapter 6: When the vital signs of microbial life go cold, does that mean the pulse is gone? Microbial life persists at the limits of cryoenvironments on Earth

Author: Jacqueline Marie Goordial

Chapter 7: Lithotrophic ("Stone Eating") Microbes Provide the Foundation for Deep Subsurface Ecosystems

Author: Thomas L. Kieft

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Part III: Understanding the core values of microbial metabolism

Chapter 8: Miraculous fixation of molecular nitrogen from the atmosphere

Author: Vladim?r Klaban

Chapter 9: Mutagens, radicals, rocket fuel and laughing gas - stringing metabolic modules to survive on nitrogenous poisons

Authors: Martin G. Klotz and Lisa Y. Stein

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Chapter 10: The grand microbial variety show

Author: Aharon Oren

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Part IV: Microbes established and sustain life

Chapter 11: Microbes' many roles in climate change: contribution, consequence, mitigation, and model system

Author: Sanghoon Kang

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Chapter 12: The Revolutionary Potential of the Hidden Half of Nature in Agriculture and Medicine

Author: David R. Montgomery

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030635147
• ISBN13: 9783030635145
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 685 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"