Author: Lynn Ellen TerrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body temperature
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Effects of Laboratory Experimental Conditions on Thermoregulation in the Desert Iguana, Dipsosaurus Dorsalis
Author: Lynn Ellen TerrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body temperature
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field
Author: Bonnie J. PlogerPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0125583303
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Designed to provide a variety of exercises that engage students actively in all phases of scientific investigation, from formulating research questions through interpreting and presenting final results. Suited to undergraduates, each chapter presents an animal behavior exercise tested by academic members of the Animal Behavior Society. Four types of exercises are presented: (1) traditional exercises in which students follow a pre-determined protocol to test particular hypotheses, (2) traditional exercises that can easily be adapted to inquiry-based approaches, (3) combined pedagogy exercises that involve both traditional and inquiry approaches, and (4) inquiry exercises in which students brainstorm to generate their own hypotheses, then design their own experiments to test them. Exercises cover descriptive ethology, causation and development of behavior, and behavioral ecology. Both field and laboratory exercises are included on arthropods, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Biophysical Ecology
Author: David M. GatesPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486140792
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
This classic and highly influential text presents a uniquely comprehensive view of the field of biophysical ecology. In its analytical interpretation of the ecological responses of plants and animals to their environments, it draws upon studies of energy exchange, gas exchange, and chemical kinetics. The first four chapters offer a preliminary treatment of the applications of biophysical ecology, discussing energy and energy budgets and their applications to plants and animals, and defining radiation laws and units. Succeeding chapters concern the physical environment, covering the topics of radiation, convection, conduction, and evaporation. The spectral properties of radiation and matter are reviewed, along with the geometrical, instantaneous, daily, and annual amounts of both shortwave and longwave radiation. The book concludes with more elaborate analytical methods for the study of photosynthesis in plants and energy budgets in animals, in addition to animal and plant temperature responses. This text will prove of value to students and environmental researchers from a variety of fields, particularly ecology, agronomy, forestry, botany, and zoology.
Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
Author: Fisheries Research Board of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Biological Abstracts
Author: Safety Science Abstracts
Author: The Journal of Experimental Biology
Author: Behavior and Neurology of Lizards
Author: Neil GreenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The American Biology Teacher
Author: Temperature Biology of Animals
Author: Andrew CossinsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400931271
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Temperature is one facet in the mosaic of physical and biotic factors that describes the niche of an animal. Ofthe physical factors it is ecologically the most important. for it is a factor that is all-pervasive and one that. in most environments. lacks spatial or temporal constancy. Evolution has produced a wide variety of adaptive strategies and tactics to exploit or deal with this variable environmental factor. The ease with which temperature can be measured. and controlled experimentally. together with its widespread influence on the affairs of animals. has understandably led to a large. dispersed literature. In spite of this no recent book provides a comprehensive treatment of the biology of animals in relation to temperature. Our intention in writing this book was to fill that gap. We hope we have provided a modern statement with a critical synthesis of this diverse field. which will be suitable and stimulating for both advanced undergraduate and post graduate students of biology. This book is emphatically not intended as a monographical review. as thermal biology is such a diverse. developed discipline that it could not be encompassed within the confines of a book of this size.