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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.

A companion site for this book with artwork for downloading is available at: www.blackwellpublishing.com/willmer/

Environmental Physiology of Animals

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 12/10/2004
    ISBN13: 9781405107242, 978-1405107242
    ISBN10: 1405107243

    Number of Pages: 784

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

    Description

    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.

    A companion site for this book with artwork for downloading is available at: www.blackwellpublishing.com/willmer/

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