Environmental Physiology of Animals

The new and updated edition of this accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of the comparative physiology of animals within an environmental context. <br /> <ul> <li>Includes two brand new chapters on Nerves and Muscles and the Endocrine System.</li> <li>Discusses both comparative systems physiology and environmental physiology.</li> <li>Analyses and integrates problems and adaptations for each kind of environment: marine, seashore and estuary, freshwater, terrestrial and parasitic.</li> <li>Examines mechanisms and responses beyond physiology.</li> <li>Applies an evolutionary perspective to the analysis of environmental adaptation.</li> <li>Provides modern molecular biology insights into the mechanistic basis of adaptation, and takes the level of analysis beyond the cell to the membrane, enzyme and gene.</li> <li>Incorporates more varied material from a wide range of animal types, with less of a focus purely on terrestrial reptiles, birds and mammals and rather more about the spectacularly successful strategies of invertebrates.</li> </ul> <p><b>A companion site for this book with artwork for downloading is available at:</b> <b><a href=”http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/willmer/”>www.blackwellpublishing.com/willmer/</a></b></p>