LEADER 04501nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910451490403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-14287-5 010 $a9786611142872 010 $a3-540-74231-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-540-74231-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000492410 035 $a(EBL)338509 035 $a(OCoLC)233973412 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000202303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166367 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000202303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10264459 035 $a(PQKB)11140707 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-540-74231-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC338509 035 $a(PPN)123739500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL338509 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10222999 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL114287 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000492410 100 $a20070808d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMicrobiology of extreme soils$b[electronic resource] /$fPatrice Dion, Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal, editors ; foreword by John D. Rummel 205 $a1st ed. 2008. 210 $aBerlin $cSpringer$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (382 p.) 225 1 $aSoil biology,$x1613-3382 ;$vv. 13 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-642-44610-8 311 $a3-540-74230-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrinciples of Extreme Soil Microbiology -- The Microbiological Promises of Extreme Soils -- Microbial Diversity, Life Strategies, and Adaptation to Life in Extreme Soils -- Extreme Views on Prokaryote Evolution -- Biodiversity: Extracting Lessons from Extreme Soils -- Natural Extreme Soils -- Halophilic and Halotolerant Micro-Organisms from Soils -- Atacama Desert Soil Microbiology -- Microbial Communities and Processes in Arctic Permafrost Environments -- Aerobic, Endospore-Forming Bacteria from Antarctic Geothermal Soils -- Peatland Microbiology -- Subsurface Geomicrobiology of the Iberian Pyritic Belt -- The Potential for Extant Life in the Soils of Mars -- Anthropogenic Extreme Soils -- Bacteriology of Extremely Cold Soils Exposed to Hydrocarbon Pollution -- Microbiology of Oil-Contaminated Desert Soils and Coastal Areas in the Arabian Gulf Region -- Microbial Communities in Fire-Affected Soils -- Endophytes and Rhizosphere Bacteria of Plants Growing in Heavy Metal-Containing Soils -- Interactions of Fungi and Radionuclides in Soil. 330 $aMy auxiliaries are the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what fertility is in the soil itself, which for the most part is lean and effete. ? Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond The concerns that Thoreau had about his beans were nothing to those that would face a similarly conscientious gardener in the Atacama Desert or on the planet Mars, where dews are rare, or frozen, and rains are extremely rare ? or absent al- gether. Yet we live in a time when an appreciation of the differences and simila- ties among soils (or regolith: no organics detected on Mars, as yet!) can provide a perspective on life at its most fundamental level: that of microbiology. Microbes are the Earth?s finest chemists, and most prodigious chemical engineers. Beyond pure chemistry, they know tricks with electrons that would make any Silicon Valley chip designer blush with pride. And yet their size and association with human food (good) and diseases (bad) has for more than a century obscured their essential place in making the Earth a habitable planet for humans. One of the most interesting facets of this book is that we are shown those chemists at work in one of their most important habitats. Soils comprise both a pervasive environment on our planet and one of the most important (even most fruitful!) of habitats with respect to human survival. 410 0$aSoil biology ;$v13. 606 $aMicrobiology$xResearch 606 $aSoil microbiology 606 $aSoils$xEffect of human beings on 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMicrobiology$xResearch. 615 0$aSoil microbiology. 615 0$aSoils$xEffect of human beings on. 676 $a578.757 701 $aDion$b Patrice$f1953-$0872234 701 $aNautiyal$b Chandra Shekhar$0872235 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451490403321 996 $aMicrobiology of extreme soils$91947482 997 $aUNINA