Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 20. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 252 pages
978-3-642-73377-2 (ISBN)
Description
Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology
provides comprehensive, integrated reviews giving sound, critical, and provocative summaries of our present knowledge in environmental and comparative physiology, from the molecular to the organismic level. The field has now gained the international status it deserves and the organization of a series devoted to it is very timely in view of its actual rapid development. Biologists, physiologists, and biochemists, independently of their basic scientific orientation, will find this new series of major interest.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
9 s/w Abbildungen
VIII, 252 p. 9 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
462 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-73377-2 (9783642733772)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-73375-8
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12/2012
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07/1988
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Content
1 Mammalian Hibernation: An Escape from the Cold.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Ecological Significance of Mammalian Hibernation.- 3 Organ System and Organ/Tissue Adaptations.- 4 Cellular, Subcellular, and Membrane Adaptations.- 5 Antimetabolic Peptides, the "Hibernation Induction Trigger", and the Opioids.- References.- 2 Water Vapor Absorption by Terrestrial Organisms.- 1 Introduction.- 2 General Features of Absorption Systems: Sites, Structures, and Mechanisms.- 3 Functional Classification of Absorption Mechanisms.- 4 Concluding Remarks.- References.- 3 Nutrient Transport by the Invertebrate Gut.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Annelida.- 3 Echinodermata.- 4 Mollusca.- 5 Arthropoda.- 6 Overview of Invertebrate Nutrient Absorption.- References.- 4 Nutrient Transport Across Vertebrate Intestine.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Where Sugar and Amino Acid Absorption Occurs.- 3 Pathways for Sugar and Amino Acid Absorption and Mechanisms of Regulation.- 4 Patterns of Adaptation.- References.- 5 Nutrient Transport Across the Integument of Marine Invertebrates.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Background Information.- 3 Integumental Transport in Marine Mollusks.- 4 Integumental DOM Transport in Echinoderms.- 5 Integumental Uptake of DOM in Annelids.- 6 On the Mechanism of Integumental Transport.- 7 Conclusions.- References.- 6 The Fate of Stable Pollutants - Heavy Metals and Organochlorines - in Marine Organisms.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Contamination Level of Marine Organisms.- 3 Fate of Pollutants in Marine Organisms.- 4 Stable Pollutants at the Ecosystem Level, Biological Indicators and Monitoring.- References.