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Life in Extreme Environments

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    Chapter 1 Access to glacial and subglacial environments in the Solar System by melting probe technology
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    Chapter 2 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
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    Chapter 3 Thermostable proteins as probe for the design of advanced fluorescence biosensors
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    Chapter 4 Astrobiological significance of minerals on Mars surface environment
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    Chapter 5 Industrial barrens: extreme habitats created by non-ferrous metallurgy
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    Chapter 6 Viruses in extreme environments
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    Chapter 7 Microbial ecology of submerged marine caves and holes characterized by high levels of hydrogen sulphide
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    Chapter 8 Extremely halophilic archaea and the issue of long-term microbial survival
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    Chapter 9 Planktonic microbial assemblages and the potential effects of metazooplankton predation on the food web of lakes from the maritime Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands
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    Chapter 10 Fungi in Antarctica
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    Chapter 11 Ecology and molecular adaptations of the halophilic black yeast Hortaea werneckii
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    Chapter 12 Ultraviolet radiation shapes seaweed communities
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    Chapter 13 Life strategy, ecophysiology and ecology of seaweeds in polar waters
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    Chapter 14 Life expansion in Sørkapp Land, Spitsbergen, under the current climate warming
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    Chapter 15 Some views on plants in polar and alpine regions
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    Chapter 16 Desiccation-tolerant plants in dry environments
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    Chapter 17 Energy dependant plant stress acclimation
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    Chapter 18 Post-capture investigations of hydrothermal vent macro-invertebrates to study adaptations to extreme environments
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    Chapter 19 Adaptations to hypoxia in hydrothermal-vent and cold-seep invertebrates
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    Chapter 20 How does the annelid Alvinella pompejana deal with an extreme hydrothermal environment?
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    Chapter 21 Pressure and life: some biological strategies
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    Chapter 22 Molecular evolution of haemoglobins of polar fishes
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    Chapter 23 Metal detoxification and homeostasis in Antarctic Notothenioids. A comparative survey on evolution, expression and functional properties of fish and mammal metallothioneins
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    Chapter 24 Predicting the impacts of climate change on the evolutionary adaptations of polar fish
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    Chapter 25 Human challenges in polar and space environments
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    Chapter 26 Hypometabolic induced state: a potential tool in biomedicine and space exploration
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    Chapter 27 A proposed classification of environmental adaptation: the example of high altitude
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    Chapter 28 The challenge of the food sufficiency through salt tolerant crops
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Title
Life in Extreme Environments
Published by
Springer Netherlands, July 2007
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-6285-8
ISBNs
978-1-4020-6284-1, 978-1-4020-6285-8
Editors

Amils, Ricardo, Ellis-Evans, Cynan, Hinghofer-Szalkay, Helmut

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 11 1%
India 4 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
South Africa 3 <1%
Chile 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Saudi Arabia 2 <1%
Argentina 2 <1%
Other 15 2%
Unknown 716 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 144 19%
Student > Bachelor 141 19%
Student > Master 92 12%
Researcher 91 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 40 5%
Other 122 16%
Unknown 132 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 233 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 99 13%
Environmental Science 65 9%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 51 7%
Chemistry 29 4%
Other 136 18%
Unknown 149 20%