Research Catalog

Title

Physiological animal ecology / Gideon N. Louw.

Author

Louw, Gideon, 1930-

Publication

Harlow, Essex, England : Longman Scientific & Technical ; New York, NY : Co-published in the U.S. with J. Wiley, 1993.

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Description

xii, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Animal ecophysiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- What is physiological ecology? -- Temperature and thermoregulation. 1.2. Terminology. 1.3. Physics of heat exchange. 1.4. Measuring temperature and heat transfer. 1.5. The heat balance and the complexity of heat exchange in an outdoor environment. 1.6. Control systems. 1.7. Metabolic rate and thermoneutral zones. 1.8. Colour. 1.9. Evolution of endothermy. 1.10. Fever (pyrexia) -- aberration or adaptive response? 1.11. Case studies -- 2. Water relations. 2.1. Physical properties of water. 2.2. Physics of water movement. 2.3. Terminology. 2.4. The measurement of evaporative water loss and water turnover rates. 2.5. Water balance. 2.6. Nitrogen excretion. 2.7. Excretion mechanisms. 2.8. Case studies -- 3. Nutrition and energy. 3.1. Nutrition. 3.2. Energy. 3.3. Case studies -- 4. Reproduction and the environment. 4.1. Endocrine control of reproduction. 4.2. Patterns of reproduction. 4.3. Evolutionary enigma of the scrotum and sperm competition. 4.4. Lactation.

ISBN

0582059224

LCCN

^^^91044402^

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