Living at the Extremes: Extremophiles and the Limits of Life in a Planetary Context [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Prokaryotic life has dominated most of the evolutionary history of our planet, evolving to occupy virtually all available environmental niches. Extremophiles, especially those thriving under multiple extremes, represent a key area of research for ...
Nancy Merino +12 more
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The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Historical climate adaptation can give insight into the potential for adaptation to contemporary changing climates. Here Bennett et al. investigate thermal tolerance evolution across much of the tree of life and find different effects of ancestral ...
Joanne M. Bennett +16 more
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The Physical, Chemical and Physiological Limits of Life [PDF]
Life, 2015 Life on Earth displays an incredible diversity in form and function, which allows it to survive not only physical extremes, but also periods of time when it is exposed to non-habitable conditions. Extreme physiological adaptations to bridge non-habitable
Dirk Schulze-Makuch +2 more
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A Systematic Study of the Limits of Life in Mixed Ion Solutions: Physicochemical Parameters Do Not Predict Habitability [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 This study investigated what defines the limits of life in mixed ion solutions. Better understanding these limits should allow us to better predict the habitability of extreme environments on the Earth and extraterrestrial environments. We systematically
Adam H. Stevens, Charles S. Cockell
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Polyextremophile engineering: a review of organisms that push the limits of life [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyNature exhibits an enormous diversity of organisms that thrive in extreme environments. From snow algae that reproduce at sub-zero temperatures to radiotrophic fungi that thrive in nuclear radiation at Chernobyl, extreme organisms raise many questions ...
Joaquin Caro-Astorga +10 more
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Limits of life: Thermal tolerance of deep-sea hydrothermal vent copepods and implications for community succession. [PDF]
PLoS ONEOrganisms that live in extreme marine environments naturally experience intermittent exposures to the limits of their physiological potential at different time scales and have developed diverse strategies to survive these variations.
Alessandro Messora +5 more
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Limits on quality of life in communication after total laryngectomy
International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2012 Summary Introduction: Among people affected by cancer, the impairment of quality of life of people affected by cancer can cause have devastating effects.
Adriana Di Donato Chaves +6 more
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Power limits for microbial life [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 To better understand the origin, evolution, and extent of life, we seek to determine the minimum flux of energy needed for organisms to remain viable. Despite the difficulties associated with direct measurement of the power limits for life, it is possible to use existing data and models to constrain the minimum flux of energy required to sustain ...
Doug Larowe, Jan Amend
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Corrigendum: Living at the Extremes: Extremophiles and the Limits of Life in a Planetary Context [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Nancy Merino +12 more
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At limits of life: multidisciplinary insights reveal environmental constraints on biotic diversity in continental Antarctica. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Multitrophic communities that maintain the functionality of the extreme Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, while the simplest of any natural community, are still challenging our knowledge about the limits to life on earth.
Catarina Magalhães +7 more
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