15 JUNE 1999
NEW BOOK: MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENTS
by Oren, A. 1999
Contents: Introduction; Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of Halophilic Microorganisms - An Overview, A. Oren; Diversity and Ecology; Diversity of Members of the Family Halobacteriaceae, M. Kamekura; Contribution of Molecular Techniques to the Study of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Environments, F. Rodriguez-Valera, S.G. Acinas, and J. Anton; The Microbial Ecology of Solar Salt Plants, C.D. Litchfield, A. Irby, and R.H. Vreeland; Considerations for Microbiological Sampling of Crystals from Ancient Salt Formations, R.H. Vreeland and D.W. Powers; Poikilotroph Response of Microorganisms to Shifting Alkalinity, Salinity, Temperature and Water Potential, A.A. Gorbushina and W.E. Krumbein; Biogeochemistry; Hypersaline Depositional Environments and Their Relation to Oil Generation, A. Aizenshtat, I. Miloslavski, D. Aschengrau, and A. Oren; Field Evidence for 13C Depletion Due to Atmospheric CO2 Invasion in Hypersaline Microbial Mat Communities, N. Gazit-Yaari, B. Lazar, and J. Erez; The Dead Sea - A Terminal Lake in the Dead Sea Rift: A Short Overview, I. Gavrieli, M. Beyth, and Y. Yechieli; The Rise and Decline of a Bloom of Halophilic Algae and Archaea in the Dead Sea: 1992-1995, A. Oren; Studies on the Microbiota of the Dead Sea - Fifty Years Later, A. Ventosa, D.R. Arahal, and B.E. Volcani; Radiotracer Studies of Bacterial Methanogenesis in Sediments from the Dead Sea and Solar Lake (Sinai), M.M. DiPasquale, A. Oren, Y.
Cohen, and R.S. Oremland; Ion Metabolism and Osmotic Regulation; The Molecular Mechanism of Regulation of the Na+/H+. 384 pp.
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