Research Catalog

Title

The physiology of polar fishes / edited by Anthony P. Farrell, John F. Steffensen.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

• Farrell, Anthony Peter, 1952-
• Steffensen, John F.

Description

xii, 396 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Fish physiology ; v. 22

Uniform Title

Fish physiology ; v. 22.

Subjects

• Vissen (dierkunde)
• Fishes > Polar regions
• Poissons > Adaptation > Régions polaires
• Poissons > Régions polaires
• Fishes > Physiology
• Cold Climate
• Adaptation au froid
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Fishes > physiology
• Cold adaptation
• Fysiologische aspecten
• Fishes > Adaptation > Polar regions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Arctic and Antarctic polar marine environments / Arthur L. DeVries and John F. Steffensen -- Systematics of polar fishes / Peter Rask Møller, Jorgen G. Nielsen, and M. Eric Anderson -- Metabolic biochemistry: its role in thermal tolerance and in the capacities of physiological and ecological function / H.O. Pörtner, M. Lucassen, and D. Storch -- Antifreeze proteins and organismal freezing avoidance in polar fishes / Arthur L. DeVires and C.-H. Christina Cheng -- Respiratory systems and metabolic rates / John F. Steffensen -- The circulatory system and its control / Michael Axelsson -- Blood-gas transport and hemoglobin function in polar fishes: does low temperature explain physiological characters? / R.M.G. Wells -- Antarctic fish skeletal muscle and locomotion / William Davison -- The nervous system / John MacDonald and John Montgomery.

ISBN

• 0123504465
• 9780123504463

OCLC

• ocm62170523
• 62170523
• SCSB-5399513

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries