What are extreme environments and what lives in them?

Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-12

  Bell, Elanor M ^a   Callaghan, Terry V ^b,c  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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