Systems Biogeochemistry of Major Marine Biomes (eBook)

Aninda Mazumdar is Principal Scientist of Geological Oceanography at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography in Goa, India. Wriddhiman Ghosh is Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Bose Institute in Kolkata, India.

Biome I Continental margins

1. Biogeochemistry of marine oxygen minimum zones with special emphasis on the Northern Indian Ocean
Svetlana Fernandes, Subhrangshu Mandal, Kalyani Sivan, Aditya Peketi, and Aninda Mazumdar

2. Sedimentary records of present and past marine sulfur cycling
Harald Strauss

3. The role of microorganisms in iron reduction in marine sediments
Carolina Reyes, and Patrick Meister

4. Biogeochemistry of Nitrogen in the marine system with special emphasis on the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal
Kalyani Sivan, Aninda Mazumdar, Aditya Peketi, and Jittu Mathai

5. Organic carbon in the sediments of western Indian margin
Pratima M. Kessarkar, Venigalla P. Rao, Lina L. Fernandes, and Siby Kurian

Biome II Ocean Depths

6. Deep subsurface microbiomes of the marine realm
Jagannath Sarkar, Nibendu Mondal, Subhrangshu Mandal, Sumit Chatterjee, and Wriddhiman Ghosh

7. Biogeochemistry of marine petroleum systems
Subhrangshu Mandal, Nibendu Mondal, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Wriddhiman Ghosh, and Bhaskar Bhadra

Biome III Polar Oceans

8. Biogeochemical processes in the Arctic Ocean
Rupesh K. Sinha, and Krishnan P. Kottekkatu

9. Biogeochemistry and ecology of the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean
Rahul Mohan, Suhas S. Shetye, Shramik Patil, Sabu Prabhakaran, Vidya P. Jayapalan, and Melena Soares

10. Benthic biome of the Southern Ocean: Present state of knowledge and future perspective
Moumita Bhowmik, Sumit Mandal, and Sarat C. Tripathy

11. Biogeochemistry of the Antarctic coasts: implications for biodiversity and climate change
Amrutha Karayakath, Jitendra K. Pattanaik, Khem C. Saini, Pushpendu Kundu, and Felix Bast

Biome IV Extreme environments

12. Geomicrobiology at a physicochemical limit for Life: Deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basins
Nibendu Mondal, Subhrangshu Mandal, and Wriddhiman Ghosh

13. Ecology of Cold Seep Habitats
Mandar Nanajkar, Kalyan De, Aniket Desai, Sambhaji Mote, and Sabyasachi Sautya

14. Biogeochemical characteristics of hydrothermal systems in Indian Ocean
Surya Prakash Lankalapalli, Sheryl O. Fernandes, Baban Ingole,and John P. Kurian