Environmental Physiology of Animals (Revised)
Revised
The new and updated edition of this accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of the comparative physiology of animals within an environmental context.
- Includes two brand new chapters on Nerves and Muscles and the Endocrine System.
- Discusses both comparative systems physiology and environmental physiology.
- Analyses and integrates problems and adaptations for each kind of environment: marine, seashore and estuary, freshwater, terrestrial and parasitic.
- Examines mechanisms and responses beyond physiology.
- Applies an evolutionary perspective to the analysis of environmental adaptation.
- Provides modern molecular biology insights into the mechanistic basis of adaptation, and takes the level of analysis beyond the cell to the membrane, enzyme and gene.
- Incorporates more varied material from a wide range of animal types, with less of a focus purely on terrestrial reptiles, birds and mammals and rather more about the spectacularly successful strategies of invertebrates.
A companion site for this book with artwork for downloading is available at: www.blackwellpublishing.com/willmer/
Graham Stone began his research career in entomology at Oxford, progressively switching to broader aspects of the biology of insect-plant interactions. His current interests at Edinburgh mainly focus on pollination ecology (particularly of Acacia communities in Africa) and the biology of oak gallwasps.
Ian A. Johnston began his research career at Hull and Bristol. His research group at St Andrews is currently utilizing genomic, molecular, physiological, structural, and whole organism approaches to investigate muscle development and growth in teleost fish, with particular reference to temperature adaptation and the evolution of Antarctic and Arctic species.
9781405107242
Book, Hardcover
Environmental Physiology of Animals (Revised)
2, Revised
- Author: Pat Willmer, Graham Stone, Ian Johnston
Wiley-blackwell, 2004
784
English
11.24 x 8.72 x 1.54 inches, 5.16 pounds
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