生命が存在するための必要不可欠な条件。その「地球のからくり」に迫るお薦めの本です。
横山祐典著 「地球46億年 気候大変動」(炭素循環で読み解く、地球気候の過去・現在・未来) 講談社ブルーバックス(2018.10.20発行)
ご参考までに、南極湖沼古環境復元に関して、JAMSTECの高野淑識博士を通して上記著者との共同研究は下記の通りです。
*. Yoshinori Takano, Jonathan James Tyler, Hisaya Kojima, Yusuke Yokoyama, Yukiko Tanabe, Takaharu Sato, Nanako O. Ogawa, Naohiko Ohkouchi, and Manabu Fukui. Holocene lake developments and glacial-isostatic uplift at Lake Skallen and Lake Oyako, Luetzow-Holm Bay, east Antarctica: based on biogeochemical facies and molecular signatures.
Applied Geochemistry 27: 2546-2559. 2012.
*. Yoshinori Takano, Hisaya Kojima, Eriko Takeda, Yusuke Yokoyama and Manabu Fukui. Biogeochemistry and limnology in Antarctic subglacial weathering: molecular evidence of the linkage between subglacial silica input and primary producers in a perennially ice-covered lake.
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2: 8 (pp15). 2015.
*. Rachel Rudd, Jonathan Tyler, John Tibby, Yusuke Yokoyama, Ines Tavernier, Elie Verleyen, Manabu Fukui and Yoshinori Takano. A diatom inferred of lake hydrological variability during the last 900 years in Luetzow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica.
Journal of Quaternary Science 31: 114-125. 2016. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2845