Contents
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 viii Contents
Part III Biological Activity in Permafrost
9 Microbial Activity in Frozen Soils 119
Nicolai S. Panikov
10 Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) 149
C. 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. Murton
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
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 B. 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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