Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Mammals
Philip C. Withers
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Mammals are the so-called "pinnacle" group of vertebrates, successfully colonising virtually all terrestrial environments as well as the air (bats) and sea (especially pinnipeds and cetaceans). How mammals function and survive in these diverse environments has long fascinated mammologists, comparative physiologists and ecologists. Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Mammals explores the physiological mechanisms and evolutionary necessities that have made the spectacular adaptation of mammals possible. It summarises our current knowledge of the complex and sophisticated physiological approaches that mammals have for survival in a wide variety of ecological and environmental contexts: terrestrial, aerial, and aquatic. The authors have a ... Read more
Mammals are the so-called "pinnacle" group of vertebrates, successfully colonising virtually all terrestrial environments as well as the air (bats) and sea (especially pinnipeds and cetaceans). How mammals function and survive in these diverse environments has long fascinated mammologists, comparative physiologists and ecologists. Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Mammals explores the physiological mechanisms and evolutionary necessities that have made the spectacular adaptation of mammals possible. It summarises our current knowledge of the complex and sophisticated physiological approaches that mammals have for survival in a wide variety of ecological and environmental contexts: terrestrial, aerial, and aquatic. The authors have a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Ecological and Environmental Physiology Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199642724
SKU
V9780199642724
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-4
About Philip C. Withers
Philip Withers completed his PhD in biology at the University of California at Los Angeles, in 1976, on fossorial and heterothermic mammals and birds. He then visited The University of Cape Town as a Postdoctoral Fellow, studying thermoregulation, energetics and water balance of desert vertebrates. He has subsequently held academic positions at Portland State University and currently the University of ... Read more
Reviews for Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Mammals
Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Mammals belongs on the shelf of every mammologist or anyone interested in the physiology of mammalian adaptation and long-term survival.
Kenneth B. Armitage, The Quarterly Review of Biology
Kenneth B. Armitage, The Quarterly Review of Biology