Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments

Herausgeber: Doran, Peter T.; McKnight, Diane M.; Lyons, W. Berry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The lessons learned from studies of the dry valleys of Antarctica applied to the search for life on other planets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9780521889193
• ISBN-10: 0521889197
• Artikelnr.: 28245000

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Peter T. Doran
W. Berry Lyons and Diane M. McKnight; 2. Geologic analogies between the surface of Mars and the McMurdo Dry Valleys: microclimate-related geomorphic features and evidence for climate change David R. Marchant and James W. Head; 3. The legacy of aqueous environments on soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys: contexts for future exploration of Martian soils Jeb E. Barrett
Michael A. Poage
Michael A. Gooseff and Cristina Takacs-Vesbach; 4. The Antarctic cryptoendolithic microbial ecosystem Henry J. Sun
James A. Nienow and Christopher P. McKay; 5. Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valley stream ecosystems as analog to fluvial systems on Mars Michael A. Gooseff
Diane M. McKnight
Michael H. Carr and Jenny Baeseman; 6. Saline lakes and ponds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: ecological analogs to Martian paleolake environments Jill Mikucki
W. Berry Lyons
I. Hawes
Brian D. Lanoil and Peter T. Doran; 7. The biogeochemistry and hydrology of Dry Valley glaciers: is there life on Martian ice now? Martyn Tranter
Elizabeth Bagshaw
Andrew Fountain and Christine Foreman; 8. Factors promoting microbial diversity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys
Antarctica Cristina Takacs-Vesbach
Lydia Zeglin
Jeb E. Barrett
Michael A. Gooseff and John C. Priscu; 9. Other analogs to Mars: high altitude
subsurface
desert
and polar environments Nathalie A. Cabrol
Dale T. Andersen
Carol R. Stoker
Pascal Lee
Christopher P. McKay and David S. Wettergreen.