Title: Environmental physiology of the amphibians /
Authors: Feder, Martin E.; Burggren, Warren W.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Amphibians Physiology; Amphibians Ecology.
Contents: The nervous system / Walter Wilczynski -- Endocrinology / Ceil A. Herman -- Biophysics of heat and mass transfer / James R. Spotila, Michael P. O'Connor and George S. Bakken -- Exchange of respiratory gases, ions and water in amphibious and aquatic amphibians / Robert G. Boutilier, Daniel F. Stiffler, and Daniel P. Toews -- Exchange of water, ions, and respiratory gases in terrestrial amphibians / Vaughan H. Shoemaker [and others] -- Sensory mechanisms regulation the cardiovascular and respiratory systems / Nigel H. West and Bruce N. Van Vliet -- The influence of temperature and thermal acclimation on physiological function / Lawrence C. Rome, E. Don Stevens and Henry B. John-Alder -- Thermoregulation / Victor H. Hutchison and R. Keith Dupré -- Estivation and hibernation / Alan W. Pinder, Kenneth B. Storey, and Gordon R. Ultsch -- Striated muscle / Carl Gans and Greet De Gueldre -- Energetics at rest and during licomotion / Robert E. Gatten, Jr., Kirk Miller, and Robert J. Full -- Feeding and digestion / Lis Olesen Larsen -- Behavioral energetics / F. Harvey Pough [and others] -- Growth and reproduction / C. Barker Jørgensen -- Developmental changes in physiological systems / Warren W. Burggren and John J. Just.