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Microbes and Climate: A Tangled Relation

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In the present scenario, the undesirable changes in the climatic conditions impact different components of ecosystem such as microbes, plants, animals, soil, etc. In this chapter, an effort has been made to summarize the relation between microbes and climate and their impact on each other. There are very few relationships that could be as complex as that of microorganisms and climate. More recent evidence has attempted to explain the role of microorganisms in regulating the fluxes of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Microbes play an integral role in modulating the cycles of various elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. They directly as well as indirectly influence the release of greenhouse gases into the environment as well as the consumption of these gases from the atmosphere. As such, the application of utilizing these microbes for mitigating climate change has started receiving greater attention. This chapter enumerates the various beneficial microbes and their individual role in amelioration of the damage to the climate, laying emphasis on the potential to exploit these microbes as a technique for remedying the adverse climatic conditions.

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  1. Department of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Irfan Khan & Saghir Ahmad

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    Fahad Khan & Pratibha Pandey

  3. School of Biological Engineering & Sciences, Shobhit University, Saharanpur, India

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Khan, I., Khan, F., Ahmad, S., Pandey, P., Khan, M.M. (2021). Microbes and Climate: A Tangled Relation. In: Lone, S.A., Malik, A. (eds) Microbiomes and the Global Climate Change. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4508-9_1

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