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Life at Rock Surfaces - Challenged by Extreme Light, Temperature and Hydration Fluctuations (Hardcover)
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Life at Rock Surfaces - Challenged by Extreme Light, Temperature and Hydration Fluctuations (Hardcover)
Series: Life in Extreme Environments
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Rock surfaces provide a challenging habitat for a broad diversity
of micro- or small-sized organisms. They interact with each other
forming complex communities as well with their substrate causing
biodeterioration of rock. Extreme fluctuation in light, temperature
and hydration are the main factors that determine the rock surface
habitats. The habitat includes epilithic organisms which thrive on
the surface without penetrating the rock, endolithic organisms
which live just beneath the surface using a thin layer of the rock
surface for protection against adverse conditions of the
environment (e.g. light protection, storage of water) and
chasmo-endolithic organisms which use fractures of the rock surface
for a more habitable environment. The book will provide an overview
of the various organismal groups, from prokaryotes to vascular
plants and arthropods, as well as survey organism-mediated
interactions with the rock surface. The latter include biogenic
weathering (biogeochemistry, state-of-the art imaging methods),
photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation at and inside the rock
surface.
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