Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197688564ISBN-10:019768856XUPC:9780197688564Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Global Warming & Climate ChangeBook Topic:Biology, MicrobiologySize:8.90 x 6.40 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC2GNBGA5R
Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change
For billions of years, microbes have produced and consumed greenhouse gases that regulate global temperature and in turn other aspects of our climate. The balance of these gases maintains Earth's habitability. Methane, a greenhouse gas produced only by microbes, may have kept Earth out of a deep freeze billions of years ago. Likewise, variations in carbon dioxide, another greenhouse gas released...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197688564ISBN-10:019768856XUPC:9780197688564Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Global Warming & Climate ChangeBook Topic:Biology, MicrobiologySize:8.90 x 6.40 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC2GNBGA5R
David L. Kirchman was the Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware until he retired in 2020 and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. Author of over 175 papers and two books, and editor of the...
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