Past extremes

Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 13-35

  Lomax, Barry H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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