Geomicrobes: Life in Terrestrial Deep Subsurface

• Main Author: Malin Bomberg (auth)
• Other Authors: Lasse Ahonen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); Nitrogen Cycle; Methane; Eukaryotes; Iron oxidation; cave; Groundwater; Terrestrial deep biosphere; MINE; Heavy metal resistance; microbiome
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The deep subsurface is, in addition to space, one of the last unknown frontiers to human kind. A significant part of life on Earth resides in the deep subsurface, hiding great potential of microbial life of which we know only little. The conditions in the deep terrestrial subsurface are thought to r...