Research Catalog

Title

Environmental physiology of animals / editors, J. Bligh, J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson, A.G. MacDonald.

Publication

New York : Wiley : Distributed in the United States of America by Halsted Press, 1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bligh, J.
• Cloudsley-Thompson, J. L.
• Macdonald, A. G. (Alister Gordon)

Description

viii, 456 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Halsted Press book

Subject

• Ecophysiology
• Adaptation (Physiology)
• Evolution (Biology)
• Bioclimatology
• Evolution
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Animal Population Groups > physiology
• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Environment
• evolution
• Evolution
• Bioclimatology
• Ecophysiology

Note

• "A Halsted Press book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Part I. Introduction / Editors -- Part II. The origin of life -- The origin and early evolution of organisms / A.G. Cairns-Smith -- The evolution of the oceans and the atmosphere / M. Whitfield -- Part III. Evolutionary aspects -- Aquatic environments / A.G. Macdonald -- Ionic and osmotic regulation of aquatic animals / P.C. Croghan -- Terrestrial environments / J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson -- Water balance and excretion / E.B. Edney & K.A. Nagy -- Locomotion / R.D. Harkness -- Gas exchange / P.J. Butler -- Reproduction / J. Bligh -- Part IV: Acquired adaptations -- Introduction to acclimatory adaptation / J. Bligh -- Cellular adaptation to the environment / M. Smith -- Thermal adaptation in the whole animal / H. Pohl -- High altitude adaptations in the whole animal / C. Monge & J. Whittembury -- Seasonal changes in the whole animal / H. Pohl -- Part V: Immediate homeostatic sensory responses -- Rapid response of organisms to environmental changes / J. Bligh -- Sensory physiology in relation to food and predators / L. Goodman & J. Patterson -- Buoyancy / P. Tytler -- Colour changes / H.E. Hinton -- Temperature regulation / J. Bligh -- Part VI. Postscript / Editors.

ISBN

• 0470989238
• 9780470989234
• 0470989254
• 9780470989258
• 0632000686
• 9780632000685
• 0632004169
• 9780632004164

LCCN

76025459

OCLC

• ocm02346807
• 2346807
• SCSB-9452191

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library