Author: Frederick B. TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Energy Utilization by a Desert Lizard (Uta Stansburiana)
Author: Frederick B. TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Oxygen Consumption and Water Loss in the Desert Lizard Uta Stansburiana
Author: Lou Anne RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fasting
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development Administration. Technical Information CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description
ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles
Author: John L. Cloudsley-ThompsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364275337X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles starts with a new classification of the world's deserts, based upon the type of precipitation and the effect on their faunas of arthropods and reptiles. This is followed by an account of microclimates and the avoidance of environmental extremes. Whereas thermoregulation is primarily behavioural, responses to water shortage are largely physiological. Seasonal activity and phenology are described, adaptations for burrowing, the avoidance of enemies, and defence, are also outlined. A comparative account of interspecific relationships, feeding specializations, and species diversity in the two taxa is described. The purpose of the book is to provide a new and up-to-date analysis that will stimulate further research along these lines.
Wildlife Abstracts
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Arid Land Ecosystems: Volume 2, Structure, Functioning and Management
Author: D. W. GoodallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521105569
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
This volume was first published in 1981. The history of man's use of arid lands is a sad record of deterioration of the natural resource base and of low and declining living standards for the 300 million people who live in them. One prerequisite to meeting the challenge of reversing the deterioration and of raising living standards is a sound knowledge of the natural ecosystems.
Energy Utilization in Free-ranging Sceloporus Virgatus
Author: Gerold Peter MerkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sceloporus virgatus
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Biology of Desert Invertebrates
Author: C. S. CrawfordPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642857949
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
What little we know of the biology of desert invertebrates stems largely from inferences based on intensive and repeated observations. Such informa tion is not gained easily, since despite the actual abundance of these animals, relatively few of them are ever seen. In fact, except for species impacting on the well-being of human populations, historically most have been ignored by scholars in the western world. Indeed, it was ancient Egypt, with its reverence for the symbolism of the scarab, that probably provided us with the clearest early record of prominent desert types. A more modest resurgence of the story had to wait until the arrival of the present century. To be sure, some of the more obvious species had by then been elevated by European collectors to the level of drawing-room curios ities, and expeditions had returned large numbers to museums. But by 1900 the task of describing desert species and relationships among them was still in its infancy; and as for careful natural history studies, they too were just coming into their own.