Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies fa , Survival
The Romans were first to employ the term 'extremus', the superlative of 'exterus' (out- side), and somewhere between AD 1425 and 1475 the word 'extreme' is thought to have entered common usage in Europe. Extreme is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as '...
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| Tóm tắt: | The Romans were first to employ the term
'extremus', the superlative of 'exterus' (out-
side), and somewhere between AD 1425
and 1475 the word 'extreme' is thought to
have entered common usage in Europe.
Extreme is defined in the Oxford English
Dictionary as 'reaching a high or the highest
degree; very great; not usual; exceptional;
very severe or serious' (Oxford Dictionaries.
2010). We now define a multitude of envi-
ronments on planet Earth and beyond as
extreme, and we continue to discover organ-
isms capable not only of surviving but also
thriving in many of them. These organisms
Macelroy (1974) named 'extremophiles';
lovers (from the Greek, 'philos') of extreme
environments. There are two basic degrees
of extremophile-ness: those organisms that
can tolerate an extreme and become domi-
nant over others and those that really love
the extreme environment and actually
thrive there without release of competition. |
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