Geobiology: Objectives, Concepts, Perspectives
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Geobiology: Objectives, Concepts, Perspectives

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
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Geobiology: Objectives, Concepts, Perspectives

About this book

Geobiology is an exciting and rapidly developing research discipline that opens new perspectives in understanding Earth as a system. To determine and to exploit its possibilities, this promising scientific field will benefit from a discussion of its definition as a research discipline, its objectives, and its methodological approaches. Such a spirited discussion is the goal of the book "Geobiology: Objectives, Concepts, Perspectives". Geobiology touches various subdisciplines of geology and biology in many ways. The book will serve biogeochemists, paleontologists, biomineralogists, microbiologists and many others as a forum to determine future directions of geobiological research. The book includes a section on the concept of geobiological studies, which combines the parent disciplines biology and geology. Several case studies describe geobiological investigations that serve to understand Earth in the present and past. The case studies give an overview of the general understanding of geobiology and lead the reader towards the current hot topics in this rising scientific discipline.* New definition of the rising scientific discipline "geobiology"* Overview into the broad spectrum of geobiological topics* Insight into hot topics of current geobiological research

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Table of contents

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  5. Chapter 1: Introduction: Geobiology–a holistic scientific discipline
  6. Chapter 2: Geobiology and the fossil record: eukaryotes, microbes, and their interactions
  7. Chapter 3: Geobiology and paleobiogeography: tracking the coevolution of the Earth and its biota
  8. Chapter 4: The contributions of biogeomorphology to the emerging field of geobiology
  9. Chapter 5: Temperature and salinity history of the Precambrian ocean: implications for the course of microbial evolution
  10. Chapter 6: Production and cycling of natural microbial exopolymers (EPS) within a marine stromatolite
  11. Chapter 7: Microbial mats as bioreactors: populations, processes, and products
  12. Chapter 8: Geobiology of microbial carbonates: metazoan and seawater saturation state influences on secular trends during the Phanerozoic
  13. Chapter 9: The role of microorganisms and biofilms in the breakdown and dissolution of quartz and glass
  14. Chapter 10: Expanding frontiers in deep subsurface microbiology
  15. Chapter 11: Microbial transformations of organic matter in black shales and implications for global biogeochemical cycles
  16. Chapter 12: Geo-biological aspects of coastal oil pollution
  17. Chapter 13: Biogeochemistry: now and into the future