Microbial Life of Cave Systems

The earth's subsurface contains abundant and active microbial biomass, living in water, occupying pore space, and colonizing mineral and rock surfaces. Caves are one type of subsurface habitat, being natural, solutionally- or collapse-enlarged openings in rock. Within the past 30 years, there h...

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Main Author Annette Summers Engel, Annette Summers Engel
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2015
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Edition1
SeriesLife in extreme environments
Subjects
Biospeleology
Cave animals
Cave ecology
Cave plants
Microbiology
Natural history
NATURE
Underground ecology
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Summary:The earth's subsurface contains abundant and active microbial biomass, living in water, occupying pore space, and colonizing mineral and rock surfaces. Caves are one type of subsurface habitat, being natural, solutionally- or collapse-enlarged openings in rock. Within the past 30 years, there has been an increase in the number of microbiology studies from cave environments to understand cave ecology, cave geology, and even the origins of life. By emphasizing the microbial life of caves, and the ecological processes and geological consequences attributed to microbes, this book provides the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the microbial life of caves for students, professionals, and general readers.
ISBN:9783110339888
3110339889
9783110389524
3110389525
3110334992
9783110334999
DOI:10.1515/9783110339888