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Zusatztext This thoroughly researched and documented volume is the product of a life's work supports more student-friendly gee-whiz texts of physiology and ecology... There is no better way for getting comfortable with the arcane details than this. Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Clarke studied zoology and geology at Cambridge University, spending the summer of 1968 supporting geological fieldwork in Svalbard. After graduating from Cambridge University in 1970 he joined the British Antarctic Survey and spent the next 40 years working in South Georgia, the South Orkney Islands, the Antarctic Peninsula, and the Antarctic continent with the occasional return trip to Svalbard, and retired in 2010. His main ecological interests centre on how animals and plants relate to temperature. He has worked primarily with marine invertebrates and fish, but also on birds, mammals, and most recently dinosaurs. He has written over 180 scientific papers. Klappentext This is the first single volume to cover the effect of temperature in its entirety. The threat of rapid climatic change on a global scale is a stark reminder of the challenges that remain for evolutionary thermal biologists, and adds a sense of urgency to this book's mission.Winner of the British Ecological Society Marsh Book of the Year Award 2018 Zusammenfassung This is the first single volume to cover the effect of temperature in its entirety. The threat of rapid climatic change on a global scale is a stark reminder of the challenges that remain for evolutionary thermal biologists, and adds a sense of urgency to this book's mission. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Energy and heat 3: Temperature and its measurement 4: Energy flow in organisms 5: Water 6: Freezing 7: Temperature and reaction rate 8: Metabolism 9: Temperature regulation 10: Endothermy 11: Torpor and hibernation 12: The Metabolic Theory of Ecology 13: Temperature, growth and size 14: Global temperature and life 15: Temperature and diversity 16: Global climate change and its ecological consequences 17: Ten principles of thermal ecology ...
