Part I Geological, Chemical and Physical Properties of
Permafrost
1. Arctic Permafrost Soils ...................................... 3
Charles Tarnocai
2. Antarctic Permafrost Soils .................................. 17
Iain B. Campbell and Graeme G.C. Claridge
3. Mountain Permafrost ......................................... 33
Stephan Gruber and Wilfried Haeberli
Part II Biodiversity in Permafrost
4. Very Old DNA ................................................ 47
Martin B. Hebsgaard and Eske Willerslev
5. Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity in Permafrost .............. 59
Blaire Steven, Thomas D. Niederberger and Lyle G. Whyte
6. Viable Cyanobacteria and Green Algae from the Permafrost
Darkness .................................................... 73
Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya
7. Fungi in Permafrost ......................................... 85
Svetlana Ozerskaya, Galina Kochkina, Natalia
Ivanushkina and David A. Gilichinsky
8. Ancient Protozoa Isolated from Permafrost ................... 97
Anastassia V. Shatilovich, Lubov A. Shmakova,
Alexander P. Mylnikov and David A. Gilichinsky
Part III Biological Activity in Permafrost
9. Microbial Activity in Frozen Soils ......................... 119
Nicolai S. Panikov
10.Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) ..................... 149
С. Ryan Penton
11.Genomic Insights into Cold Adaptation of Permafrost
Bacteria ................................................... 159
Corien Bakermans, Peter W. Bergholz, Hector
Ayala-del-Rio, and James Tiedje
12.Proteomic Insights: Cryoadaptation of Permafrost
Bacteria ................................................... 169
Yinghua Qiu, Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya and David
M. Lubman
Part IV Impact of Global Warming On Permafrost Properties
13.Global Warming and Thermokarst ............................. 185
Julian B. Mutton
14.Global Warming and Mountain Permafrost ..................... 205
Wilfried Haeberli and Stephan Gruber
15.Global Warming and Carbon Dynamics in Permafrost Soils:
Methane Production and Oxidation ........................... 219
Dirk Wagner and Susanne Liebner
16.Global Warming and Dissolved Organic Carbon Release from
Permafrost Soils ........................................... 237
Anatoly S. Prokushkin, Masayuki Kawahigashi and
Irina V. Tokareva
17.Climate Change and Foundations of Buildings in
Permafrost Regions ......................................... 251
Yuri Shur and Douglas J. Goering
Part V Contaminants in Frozen Ground
18.Migration of Petroleum in Permafrost-Affected Regions ...... 263
David L. Barnes and Evgeny Chuvilin
19.Remediation of Frozen Ground Contaminated with
Petroleum Hydrocarbons: Feasibility and Limits ............. 279
Dennis M. Filler, Dale R. Van Stempvoort and Mary
В. Leigh
20.Application of Reactive Barriers Operated in Frozen
Ground ..................................................... 303
Damian B. Gore
Part VI Permafrost on Earth - a Model for Extraterrestrial
Habitats
21.Terrestrial Permafrost Models and Analogues of Martian
Habitats and Inhabitants ................................... 323
Nikita E. Demidov and David A. Gilichinsky
Index ......................................................... 343
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