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Physiological adaptations; desert and mountain.
- Title
- Physiological adaptations; desert and mountain. Edited by Mohamed K. Yousef, Steven M. Horvath [and] Robert W. Bullard.
- Publication
- New York, Academic Press, 1972.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 258 pages illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Environmental sciences
- Uniform Title
- Environmental sciences
- Subject
- Adaptation (Physiology) > Congresses
- Heat > Physiological effect > Congresses
- Altitude, Influence of > Congresses
- Adaptation (Physiology)
- Altitudes
- Arid regions climate
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Altitude
- Desert Climate
- desert climate
- Arid regions climate
- Altitudes
- Altitude, Influence of
- Heat > Physiological effect
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- "Published as a tribute to Dr. David Bruce Dill ... A symposium [was] held at the University of Nevada on April 19-20, 1971."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Some general concepts of physiological adaptations / E.F. Adolph -- Biophysical principles of acclimatization to heat / H.S. Belding -- Partitional calorimetry in the desert / A. Pharo Gagge -- Sweat mechanisms in heat / F.N. Craig -- Some comments on low temperatures in the desert and at high altitudes / L.D. Carlson -- Cardiovascular and respiratory reactions to heat / S. Robinson -- Some nutritional and metabolic aspects of exposure to heat / R.E. Johnson -- Large mammals in the desert / D.H.K. Lee -- Small mammals in the desert / W.G. Bradley and M.K. Yousef -- Principles of adaptations to altitude / U.C Luft -- Psychophysiological implications of life at altitude and including the role of oxygen in the process of aging / R.A. McFarland -- Physiology of work at altitude / S.M. Horvath -- The hypoxias of altitude, of anemia, and of carbon monoxide poisoning / W.H. Forbes -- Physiology of respiration at altitude / B. Balke -- Vertebrates at altitudes / R.W. Bullard -- Body fluids, body composition, and metabolic aspects of high-altitude adaptation / C.F. Consolazio, H.L. Johnson, and H.J. Krzywick.
- ISBN
- 0127746501
- 9780127746500
- LCCN
- 70187240
- OCLC
- ocm00507882
- 507882
- SCSB-296954
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library