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Global Environment: Climate and Microorganisms

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Life on Earth has created for itself the atmosphere necessary for its survival. The world climate is not only a function of atmospheric physics, but also of atmospheric chemistry. This is very dynamic and to a large extent the result of the biosphere and thus of microbial processes. Climate Change is the present important subject. The components of the climate system and the substances of the global cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur effecting the climate will be addressed.

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Reineke, W., Schlömann, M. (2023). Global Environment: Climate and Microorganisms. In: Environmental Microbiology. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66547-3_1

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