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Life at Rock Surfaces: Challenged by Extreme Light, Temperature and Hydration Fluctuations

Life at Rock Surfaces: Challenged by Extreme Light, Temperature and Hydration Fluctuations

Büdel, Burkhard
Friedl, Thomas

Hardcover

Series: Life in Extreme Environments, Book 9

BiologyEnvironmental StudiesEvolution

Publisher Price: $198.99

ISBN10: 3110642611
ISBN13: 9783110642612
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Jun 8 2021
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Rock surfaces provide a challenging habitat for a broad diversity of micro- or small-sized organisms. They interact with each other forming complex communities as well with their substrate causing biodeterioration of rock. Extreme fluctuation in light, temperature and hydration are the main factors that determine the rock surface habitats. The habitat includes epilithic organisms which thrive on the surface without penetrating the rock, endolithic organisms which live just beneath the surface using a thin layer of the rock surface for protection against adverse conditions of the environment (e.g. light protection, storage of water) and chasmo-endolithic organisms which use fractures of the rock surface for a more habitable environment.

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