Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology

✍ Scribed by S. H. Wright (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Mammalian Hibernation: An Escape from the Cold....Pages 1-45
Water Vapor Absorption by Terrestrial Organisms....Pages 47-90
Nutrient Transport by the Invertebrate Gut....Pages 91-129
Nutrient Transport Across Vertebrate Intestine....Pages 131-172
Nutrient Transport Across the Integument of Marine Invertebrates....Pages 173-218
The Fate of Stable Pollutants — Heavy Metals and Organochlorines — in Marine Organisms....Pages 219-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-252

✦ Subjects

Zoology; Biochemistry, general; Ecology; Ecotoxicology