Fundamentals of Geobiology

<b>2012 PROSE Award, Earth Science: Honorable Mention </b><br /><br />For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinary endeavour, has emerged as an exciting and rapidly expanding field, fuelled by advances in molecular phylogeny, a new microbial ecology made possible by the molecular revolution, increasingly sophisticated new techniques for imaging and determining chemical compositions of solids on nanometer scales, the development of non-traditional stable isotope analyses, Earth systems science and Earth system history, and accelerating exploration of other planets within and beyond our solar system. <p>Geobiology has many faces: there is the microbial weathering of minerals, bacterial and skeletal biomineralization, the roles of autotrophic and heterotrophic metabolisms in elemental cycling, the redox history in the oceans and its relationship to evolution and the origin of life itself..</p><p>This book is the first to set out a coherent set of principles that underpin geobiology, and will act as a foundational text that will speed the dissemination of those principles. The chapters have been carefully chosen to provide intellectually rich but concise summaries of key topics, and each has been written by one or more of the leading scientists in that field..</p><p><i>Fundamentals of Geobiology</i> is aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates in the Earth and biological sciences, and to the growing number of scientists worldwide who have an interest in this burgeoning new discipline.</p><p><b>Additional resources for this book can be found at: </b><a href="http://www.wiley.com/go/knoll/geobiology"><b>http://www.wiley.com/go/knoll/geobiology</b></a>.</p>Content: <br>Chapter 1 What is Geobiology? (pages 1–4): Andrew H. Knoll, Donald E. Canfield and Kurt O. Konhauser<br>Chapter 2 The Global Carbon Cycle: Biological Processes (pages 5–19): Paul G. Falkowski<br>Chapter 3 The Global Carbon Cycle: Geological Processes (pages 20–35): Klaus Wallmann and Giovanni Aloisi<br>Chapter 4 The Global Nitrogen Cycle (pages 36–48): Bess Ward<br>Chapter 5 The Global Sulfur Cycle (pages 49–64): Donald E. Canfield and James Farquhar<br>Chapter 6 The Global Iron Cycle (pages 65–92): Brian Kendall, Ariel D. Anbar, Andreas Kappler and Kurt O. Konhauser<br>Chapter 7 The Global Oxygen Cycle (pages 93–104): James F. Kasting and Donald E. Canfield<br>Chapter 8 Bacterial Biomineralization (pages 105–130): Kurt Konhauser and Robert Riding<br>Chapter 9 Mineral–Organic–Microbe Interfacial Chemistry (pages 131–149): David J. Vaughan and Jonathan R. Lloyd<br>Chapter 10 Eukaryotic Skeletal Formation (pages 150–187): Adam F. Wallace, Dongbo Wang, Laura M. Hamm, Andrew H. Knoll and Patricia M. Dove<br>Chapter 11 Plants and Animals as Geobiological Agents (pages 188–204): David J. Beerling and Nicholas J. Butterfield<br>Chapter 12 A Geobiological View of Weathering and Erosion (pages 205–227): Susan L. Brantley, Marina Lebedeva and Elisabeth M. Hausrath<br>Chapter 13 Molecular Biology's Contributions to Geobiology (pages 228–249): Dianne K. Newman, Victoria J. Orphan and Anna?Louise Reysenbach<br>Chapter 14 Stable Isotope Geobiology (pages 250–268): D. T. Johnston and W. W. Fischer<br>Chapter 15 Biomarkers: Informative Molecules for Studies in Geobiology (pages 269–296): Roger E. Summons and Sara A. Lincoln<br>Chapter 16 The Fossil Record of Microbial Life (pages 297–314): Andrew H. Knoll<br>Chapter 17 Geochemical Origins of Life (pages 315–332): Robert M. Hazen<br>Chapter 18 Mineralogical Co?Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere (pages 333–350): Robert M. Hazen and Dominic Papineau<br>Chapter 19 Geobiology of the Archean Eon (pages 351–370): Roger Buick<br>Chapter 20 Geobiology of the Proterozoic Eon (pages 371–402): Timothy W. Lyons, Christopher T. Reinhard, Gordon D. Love and Shuhai Xiao<br>Chapter 21 Geobiology of the Phanerozoic (pages 403–424): Steven M. Stanley<br>Chapter 22 Geobiology of the Anthropocene (pages 425–436): Daniel P. Schrag