Microbiology of Hot Deserts

Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Hot Desert Environments: Climate, Geomorphology, Habitats and Soils.- Chapter 2: Novel methods for studying the structure and function of hot desert microorganisms and their communities.- Chapter 3: Phototrophic Mats of the Desert: The Bacteria of the Biological Soil Crust Community- Chapter 4: Microbial Ecology of Hot Desert Soils.- Chapter 5: Biology of Desert Endolithic Habitats.- Chapter 6: Journey of a thousand miles: The evolution of our understanding of viruses in hot Deserts.- Chapter 7: C, N and P nutrient cycling in Drylands.- Chapter 8: Diversity and plant growth promoting properties of microbiomes associated with plants in desert soils.- Chapter 9: Insights of Extreme Desert Ecology to the Habitats and Habitability of Mars.- Chapter 10: Survival under stress: Microbial adaptation in hot desert soils.- Chapter 11: The response of soil microbial communities to hydration and desiccation cycles in hot desert ecosystems.- Chapter 12: Hot Desert Microbiology: Perspectives in a Warming World.

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• Genética (não médica)
• Ciências da terra
• Ciência ecológica, a biosfera
• Microbiologia (não médica)
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desertification;extremophiles;microbial ecology;Desert water gradients;physiologicial adaptations;Desert Astrobiology;Hypoliths;Biological Soil Crusts;Climate change;restore degraded drylands;heat resistance, photoinhibition, desiccation;Namib, Atacama, Sahara;stress response