Adaptation to environment / Newell, R. C.

Public ISBD Faire une suggestion d'achat Titre : Adaptation to environment : essays on the physiology of marine animals Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Newell, R. C., Auteur Editeur : Butter worths Année de publication : 1976 Importance : 539 p. Format : 24 cm. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-408-70778-7 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 300 Sciences sociales Résumé : This book contains a series of essays each of which is intended as a review of the special adaptations of marine organisms to the particular environmental conditions which they are likely to encounter in the natural habitat. Emphasis is placed throughout the text on recent developments in the subject and on new approaches to the study of the adaptations of marine organisms. With this in mind, the term 'Physiology' has been interpreted in its widest sense to include all aspects of the functioning of the organism from the behavior of animals to the mode of function of enzymes. For this reason structural adaptations have been reviewed in detail only where their functional role is understood and where they constitute a specific adaptation to defined environmental conditions. As might be expected in a multi-author work of this kind, the approaches to the subject and styles of presentation are rather different from one another and in some cases similar data have been referred to independently in more than one of the chapters. Rather than interrupt the continuity of each review, I have preferred to regard each chapter as complete in itself, and to provide cross references to other chapters where this was necessary. I have also found it refreshing to foster the differences in style of presentation for they reflect the individuality which each scientist brings to research problems, and perhaps give the reader some insight into the conceptual framework behind some of the experimental work which is reviewed here. Adaptation to environment : essays on the physiology of marine animals [texte imprimé] / Newell, R. C., Auteur . - Butter worths, 1976 . - 539 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-408-70778-7 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 300 Sciences sociales Résumé : This book contains a series of essays each of which is intended as a review of the special adaptations of marine organisms to the particular environmental conditions which they are likely to encounter in the natural habitat. Emphasis is placed throughout the text on recent developments in the subject and on new approaches to the study of the adaptations of marine organisms. With this in mind, the term 'Physiology' has been interpreted in its widest sense to include all aspects of the functioning of the organism from the behavior of animals to the mode of function of enzymes. For this reason structural adaptations have been reviewed in detail only where their functional role is understood and where they constitute a specific adaptation to defined environmental conditions. As might be expected in a multi-author work of this kind, the approaches to the subject and styles of presentation are rather different from one another and in some cases similar data have been referred to independently in more than one of the chapters. Rather than interrupt the continuity of each review, I have preferred to regard each chapter as complete in itself, and to provide cross references to other chapters where this was necessary. I have also found it refreshing to foster the differences in style of presentation for they reflect the individuality which each scientist brings to research problems, and perhaps give the reader some insight into the conceptual framework behind some of the experimental work which is reviewed here.

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