With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it becameevident that such environments, previously known only from the sea , are spanning the world as a parallel b...With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it becameevident that such environments, previously known only from the sea , are spanning the world as a parallel biosphere,the deuterobiosphere. In this preliminary contribution the different known biomes of the deuterobiosphere arereviewed and some general and comparative features are listed.展开更多
文摘With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it becameevident that such environments, previously known only from the sea , are spanning the world as a parallel biosphere,the deuterobiosphere. In this preliminary contribution the different known biomes of the deuterobiosphere arereviewed and some general and comparative features are listed.