The Temperature and Water Relations of Reptiles
Author: J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 180
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Author: J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 180
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Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1981-08-06
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780521236584
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Cossins
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9400931271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTemperature is one facet in the mosaic of physical and biotic factors that describes the niche of an animal. Ofthe physical factors it is ecologically the most important. for it is a factor that is all-pervasive and one that. in most environments. lacks spatial or temporal constancy. Evolution has produced a wide variety of adaptive strategies and tactics to exploit or deal with this variable environmental factor. The ease with which temperature can be measured. and controlled experimentally. together with its widespread influence on the affairs of animals. has understandably led to a large. dispersed literature. In spite of this no recent book provides a comprehensive treatment of the biology of animals in relation to temperature. Our intention in writing this book was to fill that gap. We hope we have provided a modern statement with a critical synthesis of this diverse field. which will be suitable and stimulating for both advanced undergraduate and post graduate students of biology. This book is emphatically not intended as a monographical review. as thermal biology is such a diverse. developed discipline that it could not be encompassed within the confines of a book of this size.
Author: D'Anna J. B. Jensen
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-18
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1000699803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1975 Terrestrial Environments covers the zoogeography and ecology of the main terrestrial environments of the world, including fresh water habitats with emphasis on their fauna. The book also explores climate and vegetation in so far as they affect animal life. Finally, the selective influence of the environment on its fauna is discussed and, conversely, the influence of regulation, a synthesis of these interrelations. Morphological adaptations of the animals inhabiting various types of terrestrial environments are considered in relation to locomotion, feeding, and escape from enemies. Physiological adaptations are also mentioned briefly, and the adaptative importunate of diurnal and seasonal rhythms is stressed.
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: D'Anna J. Berry
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1994-02
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780788104008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects much of the current information regarding the care and use of these alternative animal models; intended only as an introduction to these species. Authors have selected sample articles that typify recent research. Each animal group has a section of articles and books pertaining to its use in biomedical research followed by a section on its care and use. 371 articles included. Index. Information resources section.
Author: J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sidney Donald Bradshaw
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 3642603556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeserts, whether hot or cold, are considered to be one of the most difficult environments for living systems, lacking the essential free water which ac counts for approximately 60-70% of their body mass and more than 98% of their constituent atoms {Macfarlane 1978}. Amongst vertebrates, reptiles are usually thought of as the animals most adapted or suited to such environments because of their diurnal habit, based on a need for external heat, and their ability to survive far from obvious sources of water. This impression is rein forced when one examines the composition of vertebrate faunae characteristic of deserts and arid zones: reptiles predominate and they are often the only vertebrates to be found in hyper-arid areas, such as some parts of the Sahara {Monod 1973}. I recently had occasion to examine this assumption carefully, however, and was led inexorably to the conclusion that reptiles represent a particularly successful desert group, not because of their evolution of superior adaptations, but because of their possession of a basic suite of behavioural and physiologi cal characteristics that suit them uniquely to this very resource-limited environment {Bradshaw 1986a}. These fundamental reptilian characteristics are: 1. their low rates of metabolism, compared with birds and mammals, which result in extremely low rates of resource utilisation and lead to considerable economy in the handling of water 2.