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Shifts in Bacterial Community Composition and Functional Traits at Different Time Periods Post-deglaciation of Gangotri Glacier, Himalaya
Climate change causes an unprecedented increase in glacial retreats. The melting ice exposes land for colonization and diversification of bacterial...
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The significance of recent glacial history for the limno-terrestrial microfauna in Trygghamna (Svalbard, High Arctic)
The diversity and spatial distribution of microscopic invertebrates in the Arctic have yet to be studied in detail. Knowledge of this is especially...
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Climate Change
Peru is one of the countries that will be the most affected by climate change in the world, due to the presence of the Andes glaciers in its...
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The Modern Times
Scleractinian reefs developed over the Quaternary era–the last 2.8 million years–are regarded herein as modern. First, are presented the main...
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Plankton response to global warming is characterized by non-uniform shifts in assemblage composition since the last ice age
Biodiversity is expected to change in response to future global warming. However, it is difficult to predict how species will track the ongoing...
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Isotopic Tracers of the Marine Nitrogen Cycle: Present and Past
The oceanic nitrogen cycle consists of a web of microbially mediated transformations driven in part by the large range in possible nitrogen...
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Ecosystem and Species Adaptations in the Andean-Amazonian Region Traditional Land-Use Systems in Peru
This book focuses on ecosystems and species adaptations in the unique Peruvian Andean-Amazonian region. The presence of the Andes as the backbone is...
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A Look into the Past: Fossils from the Campos Sulinos Region
Today’s Campos Sulinos have witnessed important paleogeographic, paleoclimatic, and paleoenvironmental shifts in the last 300 million years. When...
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Paleoenvironmental Change in Central Mexico During the Last 20,000 Years
In this chapter a general view on the paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental evolution of the eastern basins in the Trans Mexican Volvanic Belt...
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The pioneer lichen Placopsis in maritime Antarctica: Genetic diversity of their mycobionts and green algal symbionts, and their correlation with deglaciation time
Since ice-free areas in Antarctica are predicted to increase by up to 25% before the end of this century, lichens such as the genus Placopsis will be...
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Record of Glossopterid Plants in the Southern Region of Brazil
We summarize here the glossopterid record for the late Paleozoic of southernmost Paraná Basin from the Kazimovian – Gzhelian through the Roadian, a...
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Mitochondrial cytochrome b indicates the presence of two paraphyletic diverged lineages of the blue sheep Pseudois nayaur across the Indian Himalaya: conservation implications
BackgroundPopulations exhibit signatures of local adaptive traits due to spatial and environmental heterogeneity resulting in microevolution. The...
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Chilean Patagonian Glaciers and Environmental Change
Patagonian glaciers (41°–56°S) have experienced strong volume losses and retreats during recent decades in response to the climatic changes affecting...
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Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula
Ice-free terrestrial environments of the western Antarctic Peninsula are expanding and subject to colonization by new microorganisms and plants,...
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Natural Resources and Sustainable Development in Peru
This chapter describes Peru’s natural resources, their distribution and disturbance, as well as their role in sustainable development. It also refers...
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Succession comprises a sequence of threshold-induced community assembly processes towards multidiversity
Research on successions and community assembly both address the same processes such as dispersal, species sorting, and biotic interactions but lack...
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Global phylogeography of sailfish: deep evolutionary lineages with implications for fisheries management
Since the Miocene profound climatic changes have influenced the biology and ecology of species worldwide, such as their connectivity, genetic...
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Introduction: The Reef Phenomenon
Corals, although metazoans, but because of their mineralised skeletons, were believed to be stone flowers in Ancient Times. Modern hard corals, i.e....