Air and Water - The Biology and Physics of Life''s Media

Addressing general readers and biologists, Mark Denny shows how the physics of fluids (in this case, air and water) influences the often fantastic ways in which life forms adapt themselves to their terrestrial or aquatic "media."

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Mark W. Denny

Summary

Addressing general readers and biologists, this title shows how the physics of fluids (in this case, air and water) influences the often fantastic ways in which life forms adapt themselves to their terrestrial or aquatic 'media'.

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"This is an interesting and fascinating book for the biologist and environmental scientist, who are often faced with the problem of resolving the interactions between organisms and their environment but rarely have an adequate or sufficiently detailed knowledge of the underlying physical principles to achieve a satisfactory resolution. In considering the interdependence between the physics of air and water, and the functional biology of the organisms which have evolved and adapted to terrestrial or aquatic environments, Denny has focused our attention on how the differences in many attributes of life, such as size and shape, can be explained by the physics of fluids."---Dennis A. Baker, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Mark Denny, Mark W. Denny
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.09.1995
• EAN: 9780691025186
• ISBN: 978-0-691-02518-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics, Plant Ecology, Biophysics, Animal Ecology, Zoology and animal sciences, Botany and plant sciences