The Trench Biosphere at the Bottom of the Ocean

Progress and Challenges

Jiasong Fang, Weidong Sun, Xi Yu

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443276118
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geophysics

The Trench Biosphere at the Bottom of the Ocean: Progress and Challenges provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the trench biosphere, examining the geological and physiochemical constraints on trench microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, fungi) and fauna, along with their molecular adaptation mechanisms to extreme conditions. Edited by experts in the field, the book addresses the presence of emerging and legacy environmental pollutants in trenches, state-of-the-art technologies and devices for sampling and analysis, and introduces a big-data platform for curating biological, genetic, and natural product resources in hadal trenches. A necessary guide for students and researchers in the field of Environmental Science, this book provides the latest information on biological processes and the biological and genetic resources found in the deep ocean. - Covers current research and technologies of the trench biosphere, including chemistry, microbiology, biogeochemistry, molecular biology of microorganisms and macroorganisms - Provides up-to-date knowledge in biological processes, biological and genetic resources in the deep ocean - Includes case studies with emerging technologies and scientific discoveries and their biotechnological applications

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword 1
• Foreword 2
• Acknowledgments
• Section I Introduction
• Section II Geological, physical, and chemical limits to the trench biosphere
• Section III Microbial diversity and biogeochemical processes
• Section IV Environmental pollutants
• Section V Microbial synthesis of secondary metabolites
• Section VI Innovative sampling and measurement technologies and data platforms
• Section VII Future directions
• Index