Knoll / Canfield / Konhauser Fundamentals of Geobiology

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-28086-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten, E-Book

2012 PROSE Award, Earth Science: Honorable Mention
For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with theinterrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade,however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinaryendeavour, has emerged as an exciting and rapidly expanding field,fuelled by advances in molecular phylogeny, a new microbial ecologymade possible by the molecular revolution, increasinglysophisticated new techniques for imaging and determining chemicalcompositions of solids on nanometer scales, the development ofnon-traditional stable isotope analyses, Earth systems science andEarth system history, and accelerating exploration of other planetswithin and beyond our solar system.
Geobiology has many faces: there is the microbial weathering ofminerals, bacterial and skeletal biomineralization, the roles ofautotrophic and heterotrophic metabolisms in elemental cycling, theredox history in the oceans and its relationship to evolution andthe origin of life itself..
This book is the first to set out a coherent set of principlesthat underpin geobiology, and will act as a foundational text thatwill speed the dissemination of those principles. The chapters havebeen carefully chosen to provide intellectually rich but concisesummaries of key topics, and each has been written by one or moreof the leading scientists in that field..
Fundamentals of Geobiology is aimed at advancedundergraduates and graduates in the Earth and biological sciences,and to the growing number of scientists worldwide who have aninterest in this burgeoning new discipline.
Additional resources for this book can be found at: http://www.wiley.com/go/knoll/geobiology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knoll, Andrew H.

Canfield, Don E.

Konhauser, Kurt O.

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew H. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural Historyat Harvard University. A paleontologist by training, he has workedfor three decades to understand the environmental history of Earthand, more recently, Mars. Knoll is a member of the U.S. NationalAcademy of Sciences.
Donald E. Canfield is Professor of Ecology at theUniversity of Southern Denmark and Director of the Nordic Centerfor Earth Evolution (NordCEE). Canfield uses the study of modernmicrobes and microbial ecosystems to understand the evolution ofEarth surface chemistry and biology through time. Canfield is amember of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Kurt O. Konhauser is a Professor of Geomicrobiology atthe University of Alberta. He is Editor-in-Chief for the journal,Geobiology, and author of the textbook, Introduction toGeomicrobiology. His research focuses on metal-mineral-microbeinteractions in both modern and ancient environments.