Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693461
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693461
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Catalog
Author: Library of the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Acta Zoologica
Author: Nils Fritiof HolmgrenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : de
Pages : 428
Book Description
International journal for zoology.
The Ecology of Desert Communities
Author: Gary A. PolisPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816552452
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
"Provides interesting and thought-provoking reading and is highly recommended to anyone interested in desert ecosystems or community ecology. The book . . . should serve as an inspiration to many for future research."—Journal of Biogeography "This book is not just about deserts; it is an update of the contributions that research in desert systems is making to community ecology. . . This book will provide a useful reference for desert ecologists, as well as indicate critical directions where progress needs to be made."—Ecology "This important book fills a significant gap in previous syntheses by presenting a detailed series of reviews of current understanding of community patterns and structure in desert environments. . . . Each chapter is thorough and well written and . . . closes with a discussion of suggested future research. . . . [T]hese ideas will do much to focus interest on the importance of desert systems in understanding community. Thus, this book has interest well beyond desert ecologists alone."—BioScience "Valuable reading and reference for ecology students, teachers and researchers."—Quarterly Review of Biology
Advances in Insect Physiology
Author: Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080579086
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Advances in Insect Physiology
Identified Neurons and Behavior of Arthropods
Author: Graham HoylePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468469673
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
Identified Neurons and Behavior of Arthropods presents for the larger audience the papers delivered at a symposium of the same title. I organized this symposium so that a few of the many who owe him a great scientific debt could honor Professor C. A. G. (Kees) Wiersma upon his attaining the age of 70 and retiring from the California Institute of Technology. Everyone of the participants publicly acknowledged his debt to Kees Wiersma, but in a sense there was no need to do so, because the research reported spoke for itself. Seldom in a rapidly developing branch of modem science has all of the recent progress so clearly stemmed from the pioneering work of a single figure. But in this subject, the role of identified nerve cells in determining behavior, Wiersma stood virtually alone for 30 years. He it was who first showed that indi vidual nerve cells are recognizable and functionally important and have "per sonalities" of their own.
Eniwetok Marine Biological Laboratory Contributions, 1955-1974
Author: Eniwetok Marine Biological LaboratoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coral reef biology
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea
Author: Frederick R. SchramPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199710929
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The scientific understanding of arthropod phylogeny and evolution has changed significantly in recent decades. One of the most momentous alterations involved crustaceans, which are not a monophyletc group, but are part of a larger group along with insects: Pancrustacea. The old ideas surrounding crustacean evolution have served scientists well for many years; it is now time to turn toward new research by embracing the results derived from investigations conducted largely within this century. For example, new definitions have arisen from sources across several fields of study, and Frederick R. Schram and Stefan Koenemann have created a book that explores paleobiodiversity and the diversity of modern body plans. Developments within ontogenetic studies continue to generate remarkable insights into crustaceomorph evolution in regard to patterns of embryology and a revolution in the application of development genetics. Phylogeny techniques of analysis and new sources of data derived from molecular sequencing and genetic studies have forced scientists to consider new hypotheses concerning the interrelationships of all the pancrustaceans, both the crustaceomorphs and Hexapoda. Yet, some fossil groups still remain enigmatic (Thylacocephala). Despite this, research into fossils (even if incompletely understood) fills in gaps of our knowledge of paleobiodiversity, and it's useful for many things, including analyzing the origin and early evolution of Hexapoda. Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea demonstrates the use of multiple alternative hypotheses and other techniques through the well-executed presentation of diverse data sources involving Pancrustacea. Readers are left with clues to great mysteries, including the possible pathways of evolution within marine arthropods.
Animal as Machine
Author: Michel AnctilPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228012228
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery. Animal as Machine explores the life, work, and ideas of scientists who, branding themselves as physiologists, subscribed to mechanistic concepts to explain how animals acquire and process food, breathe, circulate their blood, and sense their environment. As medical physiology thrived in the nineteenth century, zoologists struggled to forge their own distinctive physiology predicated on understanding animal functions in a context of environmental adaptation and evolutionary forces. Physiological schools with distinct emphases that shaped their outlook sprang up around the world. Dividing their time between fieldwork in marine stations and laboratory experimentation, animal physiologists stood in awe of the diversity and ingenuity of the functional strategies by which animals survived. Animal as Machine tells a remarkable and insightful story of the larger-than-life personalities and gripping historical episodes that marked the emergence and blossoming of animal physiology.
Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microscopy
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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