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Arctic Life of Birds and Mammals
Laurence Irving
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Paperback. Series: Zoophysiology. Num Pages: 194 pages, 49 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBGR; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 374.
After travel through Alaska during the Second World War, in 1947 I went to Barrow with a very lively group of biologists. From their productive research developed the Arctic Research Laboratory. While we examined the rather surpris ingly modest metabolic rates of arctic warmblooded animals in cold, PER SCHO LANDER proposed and then carried out measurements of metabolism of some tropi cal animals in Panama. The differences could be formulated to show the basis of adaptation to arctic cold and to tropical warmth. Imagination and logic were required to formulate the comparison so that it could become a part of ... Read more
After travel through Alaska during the Second World War, in 1947 I went to Barrow with a very lively group of biologists. From their productive research developed the Arctic Research Laboratory. While we examined the rather surpris ingly modest metabolic rates of arctic warmblooded animals in cold, PER SCHO LANDER proposed and then carried out measurements of metabolism of some tropi cal animals in Panama. The differences could be formulated to show the basis of adaptation to arctic cold and to tropical warmth. Imagination and logic were required to formulate the comparison so that it could become a part of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Series
Zoophysiology
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642856570
SKU
V9783642856570
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