Environmental Signal Processing and Adaptation

✍ Scribed by G. Heldmaier, D. Werner (auth.), Professor Dr. Gerhard Heldmaier, Professor Dr. Dietrich Werner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Animals and plants live in changing environmental conditions which require adaptation in order to cope with this. Some of these environmental changes serve as signals which have to be "sensed" and interpreted correctly by the organisms to initiate the adaptation. This signal processing is based on biochemical, molecular and neuronal processes which are discussed in this book. All examples given underline that continuous adjustment of physiological functions is an essential requirement for life and survival in complex changing environments.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Environmental Signal Processing and Adaptation....Pages 1-8
Communication and Efficiency in the Symbiotic Signal Exchange....Pages 9-37
Rhizosphere Signals and Ecochemistry....Pages 39-56
Endomycorrhizas in the Gentianales: Structures and Evolution of the Vesicular- Arbuscular Mycorrhiza (VAM)....Pages 57-70
Light Adaptation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Green Algae....Pages 71-86
Light-Harvesting Systems in the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Cyanobacteria, Red Algae and Cryptophytes....Pages 87-111
Thioredoxins: Adapting Plant Metabolism to Light and Other Environmental Signals....Pages 113-139
Photoinhibition in Seaweeds....Pages 141-167
The Auditory-Vibratory Sensory System in Bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae, Ensifera, Orthoptera) I Comparison of Morphology, Development and Physiology....Pages 169-207
The Auditory-Vibratory Sensory System in Bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae, Ensifera, Orthoptera) II. Signal Production and Acoustic Behavior....Pages 209-232
Mechanisms for Seasonal Control of Reproduction in Small Mammals....Pages 233-250
Role of Photoperiod During Seasonal Acclimation in Winter-Active Small Mammals....Pages 251-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-287

✦ Subjects

Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Popular Science in Nature and Environment; Animal Physiology; Plant Sciences; Ecology