A. J. Ed Woakes

Physiological Strategies for Gas Exchange and Metabolism

Herausgeber: Woakes, A. J.; Grieshaber, M. K.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1991, this book reviews the various metabolic and functional mechanisms that animals possess in order to live successfully in their own particular, often unique, environments. The book's purpose is to demonstrate both the diversity of responses that are shown (be they biochemical, physiological or behavioural) and to demonstrate the underlying principles of gas exchange and transport for a wide range of diverse organisms. What results is a useful review and analysis of our modern understanding of the respiratory physiology of helminths, crustacea, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The approach taken by the editors is essentially comparative and the individual authors were chosen so as to provide a useful, complementary view of the subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780521366021
• ISBN-10: 052136602X
• Artikelnr.: 24406198

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Does comparative respiratory physiology have
a role in evolutionary biology (and vice versa)? W. W. Burggren; Energy
metabolism in helminths P. Kohler; The role of carbonic anhydrase within
the tissues, with special reference to striated muscle G. Gros; Multiple
strategies in oxygen and carbon dioxide transport by haemoglobin F. B.
Jensen; Respiratory gas exchange and the regulation of acid-base status in
decapodan crustaceans E. W. Taylor, N. M. Whiteley and M. G. Wheatly;
Respiration and thermoregulation of amphibians and reptiles S. C. Wood and
M. L. Glass; Ventilation, gas exchange and oxygen delivery in flying and
flightless birds J. H. Brackenbury; Animal energetics at very low oxygen:
information from calorimetry and respirometry E. Gnaiger; pH changes in
fish during environmental anoxia and recovery: the advantages of the
ethanol pathway G. Van Den Thillart and A. Van Waarde; Respiratory and
metabolic adaptations of aquatic annelids to low environmental oxygen
tensions A. Toulmond; Respiratory adaptations of aquatic decapod
crustaceans and fish to a burrowing mode of life A. C. Taylor and R. J. A.
Atkinson; Respiratory adaptations to limited oxygen supply during diving in
birds and mammals P. J. Butler; Index.