A New Frontier for Palaeobiology: Earth's Vast Deep Biosphere
Bioessays, 2019 Diverse micro‐organisms populate a global deep biosphere hosted by rocks and sediments beneath land and sea, containing more biomass than any other biome except forests.
S. McMahon, M. Ivarsson
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Bacterial diversity assessment in Antarctic terrestrial and aquatic microbial mats : a comparison between bidirectional pyrosequencing and cultivation [PDF]
, 2014 The application of high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene has increased the size of microbial diversity datasets by several orders of magnitude, providing improved access to the rare biosphere compared with cultivation-based approaches and more ...
D'hondt, Sofie +9 more
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New perspectives in benthic deep-sea microbial ecology
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015 Deep-sea ecosystems represent the largest and most remote biome of the biosphere. They play a fundamental role in global biogeochemical cycles and their functions allow existence of life on our planet. In the last 20 years enormous progress has been made
Cinzia eCorinaldesi
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionLong-term stability of underground CO2 storage is partially affected by microbial activity but our knowledge of these effects is limited, mainly due to a lack of sites. A consistently high flux of mantle-derived CO2 makes the Eger Rift in the
Zeyu Jia +8 more
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Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO2 trapped in ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica [PDF]
, 1999 A high-resolution ice-core record of atmospheric CO2 concentration over the Holocene epoch shows that the global carbon cycle has not been in steady state during the past 11,000 years.
Blunier, T. +11 more
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The Planetary Science Journal, 2022 Saturn's moon Enceladus is a top candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Ecological thermodynamic modeling of the plume composition data collected by NASA's Cassini mission led to the hypothesis that a hydrogenotrophic ...
Antonin Affholder +4 more
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Sedimentary Mercury Enrichments as a Tracer of Large Igneous Province Volcanism
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 247-262., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Lawrence M. E. Percival +3 more
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IODP Deep Biosphere Research Workshop report – a synthesis of recent investigations, and discussion of new research questions and drilling targets [PDF]
Scientific Drilling, 2014 During the past decade, the IODP (International Ocean Discovery Program) has fostered a significant increase in deep biosphere investigations in the marine sedimentary and crustal environments, and scientists are well-poised to continue this momentum ...
B. N. Orcutt +8 more
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Exoplanets - search methods, discoveries, and prospects for astrobiology [PDF]
, 2008 Whereas the Solar System has Mars and Europa as the best candidates for finding fossil/extant life as we know it - based on complex carbon compounds and liquid water - the 263 (non-pulsar) planetary systems around other stars as known at 15 September ...
Jones, Barrie W
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npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2023 Biofilm formation is a common adaptation for microbes in energy-limited conditions such as those prevalent in the vast deep terrestrial biosphere. However, due to the low biomass and the inaccessible nature of subsurface groundwaters, the microbial ...
Margarita Lopez-Fernandez +6 more
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