For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology the name given to this interdisciplinary endeavour has emerged as an exciting andrapidly expanding field, fuelled by advances in molecular phylogeny, a new microbial ecology made possible by the molecular revolution, increasingly sophisticated new techniques for imaging and determining chemical compositions of solids on nanometer scales, the development of non-traditional stable isotope analyses, Earth systems science and Earth system history, and accelerating exploration of other planets within and beyond our solar system.Geobiology has manyfaces: there is the microbial weathering of minerals, bacterial and skeletal biomineralization, the roles of autotrophic and heterotrophic metabolisms in elemental cycling, the redox history in the oceans and its relationship to evolution and the origin of life itself..This book is the first to set out a coherent set of principles that underpin geobiology, and will act as a foundationaltext that will speed the dissemination of those principles. The chapters havebeen carefully chosen to provide intellectually rich but concise summaries ofkey topics, and each has been written by one or more of the leading scientists in that field..Fundamentals of Geobiology is aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates in the Earth and biological sciences, and to the growing number of scientists worldwide who have an interest in this burgeoning new discipline.
- ISBN: 978-1-118-28081-2
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 456
- Fecha Publicación: 30/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés