Animals and Temperature: Phenotypic and Evolutionary Adaptation (Society for Experimental Biology Seminar Series, Series Number 59) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521050618 ISBN 13: 9780521050616

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Organisms are continually challenged to regulate and maintain functional capacities as their thermal environment changes. Adjustment to temperature change is evident both phenotypically in individual organisms and genotypically in the evolution of species. This volume addresses thermal adaptation by bringing together many of the leading researchers in thermal biology, with backgrounds spanning the disciplines of molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, zoology, ecology and evolutionary biology. The responses of many species to temperature are discussed in depth, through the molecular, cellular, organismal, population, and ecosystem levels. This text stands as an important contribution to the study of temperature adaptation.

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Book Description:

Contributions from many of the world's leading workers in thermal biology have been brought together to produce a comprehensive and novel review of temperature adaptation in animals. The volume considers the reponses of a broad selection of species to temperature change at the molecular, cellular, organismal, population and ecosystem levels, across both short and long-term temporal scales. Given the current concern about global climate change, this review volume will be of interest to a wide range of biologists.

Review:

"This is one of those relatively infrequent occasions where an ambitious, important organizing conception for a symposium has worked out well. The editors have elicited from their contributors an interesting and significant group of papers that cover the topic in a reasonably well-integrated, logically organized, generally well-written manner." The Quarterly Review of Biology

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521050618
• ISBN 13: 9780521050616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Johnston Ian A., Bennett Albert F.