Author : Martin Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1107016916
A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.
Author : Amiram Shkolnik
Publisher : Gantner Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 25,67 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Adaptation (Physiology)
ISBN :
Deals with the physiological adaptations of goats to life in the desert. Discusses water economy, dehydration, rehydration, blood and kidney function, energy metabolism and digestiveefficiency, thermoregulation, selective brain cooling,heat balance and milk production.
Author : Giovanni Costa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642793568
After a brief survey of biotopic and vegetational features and an account of the main groups of desert animals, the most unusual patterns of the behaviour of the xerophilous fauna are examined. The importance of the thermohygric regulation and self-protective and locomotor mechanisms to the survival of arid-adapted animals is emphasized and various adaptations in the alimentary, reproductive and social spheres are analyzed. The clear and fluent treatment will awaken the interest of the reading public, from the amateur naturalists to research scientists.
Author : Yitzchak Gutterman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2002-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540431725
Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies as ecological equivalents with physiological, morphological and anatomical resemblances, in the various stages of their life cycles. After 40 years of research in hot deserts Yitzchak Gutterman provides a comprehensive treatise of such adaptations and strategies. In doing so he covers the following topics: post-maturation primary seed dormancy, which prevents germination of maturing seeds before the summer; seed dispersal mechanisms with escape or protection strategies; cautious or opportunistic germination strategies; seedling drought tolerance. The day-length is an important factor in regulating flowering as well as the phenotypic plasticity of seed germination which is also affected by maternal factors.
Author : Mohamed Yousef
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0323158285
Physiological Adaptations: Desert and Mountain discusses the bodily modifications of different animals accordingly to desert and mountain environments. Covered in this book are the basic concepts of physiological adaptations; biophysical principles of acclimization to heat; partitional calorimetry in the desert; the mechanism of sweat in relation to heat; the effects of heat on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems; and the nutritional and metabolic aspects in relation to heat. The book also covers the effects of altitude on work performance; the physiology of respiration at altitude; and the body fluids, body composition, and metabolic aspects of high-altitude adaptation. The text is recommended for biologists and natural historians who would like to know more about how animals that have deserts and mountains as habitats adapt and survive.
Author : Julie Murphy
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1429660309
"Simple text and photographs describe desert animal adaptations"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Pamela Dell
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Adaptation (Physiology)
ISBN : 1429612665
A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: * Perpetual license * 24 hour, 7 days a week access * No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time * Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available * Easy to use * Ability to turn audio on and off * Words highlighted to match audio Describes adaptations that occur in the desert environment, including general adaptations and examples.
Author : Gordon Allen Fox
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Desert plants
ISBN :
Author : Bobby Kennedy Shea
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435829700
Describes the ways different animals have managed to survive in such a harsh environment, including information on lizards, rodents, birds, and camels.
Author : Kamal H. Batanouny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662044803
Usually authors write introductions for their books, although they know that not many readers will read it. Despite this, authors insist on writing an introduction and no publisher will publish a book without one. I would like to inform my dear readers that I have spent almost all of the first quarter of my life in a village in the Nile Delta, 65 km north of Cairo. The everyday scenery there was the beautiful green landscape dissected with canals full of running water. All of these were bordered with the huge sycamore, mulberry and acacia trees. The desert was something unknown to me at that time, except for the very basic information given in geography books, which explained that the desert is a place without water or cultiva tion. Some of my ideas about the desert came to me from the stories in the history of Islam and the desert lands where Islam originated. My real attraction to the desert developed in the last year of my under graduate studies. This was during the field courses in Ecology (Prof. A.M.
