Edited by
Karim Benzerara, CNRS, France.
Christophe Thomazo, University of Burgundy, France.
ISBN : 9781789452037
Publication Date : March 2025
Hardcover 312 pp
165.00 USD
Co-publisher
Since their origins billions of years ago, life on Earth and the planet’s surface have undergone profound transformations. Microorganisms inhabiting a primitive planet enveloped by a dioxygen-free atmosphere have evolved into the modern biodiversity under the physico-chemical conditions we know today.
In Interactions between the Geosphere and the Biosphere, we characterize the nature and diversity of the close interactions between the biosphere and the geosphere that contributed to the formation and degradation of rocks, on the one hand, and sustained the functioning of ecological systems on the other. The book then explores how these interactions have led to a genuine coevolution between the biosphere and the geosphere over geological time. The most striking manifestations of this are the evolution of the global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen, that of climates and the episodes of diversification and extinction of living organisms.
1. Weathering of Rocks by Living Organisms, Bastien Wild and Damien Daval.
2. Biomineralization: The Formation of Minerals by Living Organisms, Karim Benzerara.
3. Microbialites in the Fossil and Current Record, Emmanuelle Vennin, Anthony Bouton, Pierre Boussagol and Pieter T. Visscher.
4. Molecular Approaches for the Study of Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity of Living Organisms, Miguel Iniesto, Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Thomas Bacchetta, David Moreira and Purificación López-García.
5. Oxygen: A Major Geobiological Player, Christophe Thomazo.
6. The Importance of Living Organisms in the Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles, Alice Pellerin and Magali Ader.
7. Modeling the Biosphere and Its Interactions with the Geosphere, Guillaume Le Hir.
8. Fluctuations in Biodiversity Over Geological Time: An Illustration of the Earth/Life Connection, Arnaud Brayard.
Karim Benzerara is Agrégé in Life and Earth Sciences and Director of Research at the CNRS, France. His research focuses on mineral/living interactions by combining microbiology and mineralogy.
Christophe Thomazo is Agrégé in Life and Earth Sciences and Professor at the University of Burgundy, France. His research focuses on past and present biogeochemical cycles using stable isotopes.
