Environmental physiology of animals / Pat Willmer, Graham Stone, Ian Johnston.

• Preface to Second Edition; Preface to First Edition; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PART 1 Basic Principles; 1 The Nature and Levels of Adaptation; 1.1 Introduction: comparative, environmental, and evolutionary physiology; 1.2 The meaning of "environment"; 1.3 The meaning of "adaptation"; 1.4 Comparative methods to detect adaptation; 1.5 Physiological response on different scales; 1.6 Conclusions; FURTHER READING; 2 Fundamental Mechanisms of Adaptation; 2.1 Introduction: adaptation at the molecular and genome level; 2.2 Controlling protein action. 
• 2.3 Control of protein synthesis and degradation2.4 Protein evolution; 2.5 Physiological regulation of gene expression; 2.6 Conclusions; FURTHER READING; 3 The Problems of Size and Scale; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Principle of similarity: isometric scaling; 3.3 Allometric scaling; 3.4 Scaling of metabolic rate; 3.5 Scaling of locomotion; 3.6 Conclusions: is there a right size to be?; FURTHER READING; PART 2 Central Issues in Comparative Physiology; 4 Water, Ions, and Osmotic Physiology; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Aqueous solutions; 4.3 Passive movements of water and solutes. 
• 4.4 Nonpassive solute movements4.5 Concentrations of cell contents; 4.6 Overall regulation of cell contents; 4.7 Conclusions; FURTHER READING; 5 Animal Water Balance, Osmoregulation, and Excretion; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Exchanges occurring at the outer body surface; 5.3 Osmoregulation at external surfaces; 5.4 Osmoregulatory organs and their excretory products; 5.5 Water regulation via the gut; 5.6 Regulation of respiratory water exchanges; 5.7 Water loss in reproductive systems; 5.8 Water gain; 5.9 Costs and energetics of regulating water and ion balance. 
• 5.10 Roles of nervous systems and hormones5.11 Conclusions; FURTHER READING; 6 Metabolism and Energy Supply; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Metabolic intermediaries; 6.3 Anaerobic metabolic pathways; 6.4 Aerobic metabolism; 6.5 Metabolic rates; 6.6 Energy budgets; FURTHER READING; 7 Respiration and Circulation; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Uptake and loss of gases across respiratory surfaces; 7.3 Ventilation systems to improve exchange rates; 7.4 Circulatory systems; 7.5 Delivering and transferring gases to the tissues; 7.6 Coping with hypoxia and anoxia; 7.7 Control of respiration; FURTHER READING. 
• 8 Temperature and its Effects8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Biochemical effects of temperature; 8.3 Physiological effects of temperature; 8.4 Terminology and strategies in thermal biology; 8.5 Thermal environments and thermal exchanges; 8.6 Avoidance, tolerance, and acclimation in thermal biology; 8.7 Regulating heat gain and keeping warm; 8.8 Regulating heat loss and keeping cool; 8.9 Opting out: evasion systems in space or time; 8.10 Regulating thermal biology: nerves and hormones; 8.11 Evolution and advantages of varying thermal strategies; FURTHER READING. 
• 9 Excitable Tissues: Nervous Systems and Muscles. 

• 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.

Subject headings

Ekofysiologi  (sao)

Adaptation (fysiologi)  (sao)

Jämförande fysiologi  (sao)

Djurekologi  (sao)

Djurfysiologi  (sao)

Animals  (MeSH)

Environment  (MeSH)

Adaptation (Physiology). 

Ecophysiology. 

Physiology, comparative. 

Ecophysiology  (LCSH)

Adaptation (Physiology)  (LCSH)

Publication and Content Type

571.1 (DDC)

Ug.04 (kssb/8 (machine generated))