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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521496586 ISBN 13: 9780521496582

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Environmental temperature varies in time and space on timescales ranging from a few hours to long-term climate change. Organisms are therefore continually challenged to regulate and maintain functional capacities as their thermal environment changes. This volume brings together many of the leading workers in thermal biology, with backgrounds spanning the disciplines of molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, zoology, ecology and evolutionary biology, to discuss the responses of a wide range of species to temperature change at all scales of organization, ranging through the molecular, cellular, organismal, population and ecosystem levels. The volume provides an important and comprehensive contribution to the study of temperature adaptation, which, given the concern about global climate change, will provide much to interest a wide range of biologists.

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Review

'... well written and absorbing ... It is rare that a book manages to bring together such a diverse assembly of researchers and produce as coherent an account as this. It can be recommended.' Mark Fellowes, Biologist

Book Description

This book takes a comprehensive look at how organisms adapt to temperature change. The volume considers changes over both short and long-term temporal scales, and at all levels of organisation, spanning the range from molecules to ecosystems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521496586
• ISBN 13: 9780521496582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Johnston Ian A., Bennett Albert F.