Animals and Temperature
Subtitle: Phenotypic and Evolutionary Adaptation (Society for Experimental Biology Seminar Series)
Contributors: Ian A. Johnston (Editor); Albert F. Bennett (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780521496582
Subjects: Animal physiology; Medical; Science; Life Sciences - Ecology; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Physiology; Body temperature--Regulation; Medical-Physiology; Science / Ecology; Science / Zoology; Science-Life Sciences - Ecology
First sentence: Of all the cellular responses that occur during thermal acclimation of fish, the most widespread and consistent is a change in the composition of cellular lipids.
Description: "Environmental temperature varies in time and space on time-scales ranging from a few hours to long-term climate change. Organisms are therefore continually challenged to regulate and maintain functional capacities as their thermal environment changes." "This volume brings together many of the leading workers in thermal biology, with backgrounds spanning the disciplines of molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, zoology, ecology and evolutionary biology, to discuss the responses of a wide range of species to temperature change at all scales of organisation, ranging through the molecular, cellular, organismal, population and ecosystem levels. The volume provides an important and comprehensive novel contribution to the study of temperature adaptation which, given the current concern about global climate change, will provide much to interest a wide range of biologists."--Jacket.