Living in a Seasonal World: Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations (2012)

Synopsis

This book summarises the newest information on seasonal adaptation in animals. Topics include animal hibernation, daily torpor, thermoregulation, heat production, metabolic depression, biochemical adaptations, neurophysiology and energy balance. The contributors to this book present interdisciplinary research at multiple levels ranging from the molecular to the ecophysiological, as well as evolutionary approaches. The chapters of this book provide original data not published elsewhere, which makes it the most up-to-date, comprehensive source of information on these fields. The book’s subchapters correspond to presentations given at the 14th International Hibernation Symposium in August 2012 in Austria. This is a very successful series of symposia (held every four years since 1959) that attracts leading researchers in the field. Like the past symposia, this meeting – and consequently the book – is aimed not only at hibernation but at covering the full range of animal adaptations to seasonal environments. For the next four years, this book will serve as the cutting-edge reference work for graduate students and scientists active in this field of physiology and ecology..

Copyright:

2012

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783642286780

Related ISBNs:

9783642286773

Publisher:

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Addition:

08/15/22

Copyrighted By:

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Animals, Medicine

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Thomas Ruf

Edited by:

Claudia Bieber

Edited by:

Walter Arnold

Edited by:

Eva Millesi