Diving Physiological Ecology of Australian Freshwater Turtle Hatchlings
Author : Natalie Jane Clark
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Turtles
ISBN :
Author : Natalie Jane Clark
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Turtles
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Author : John Cann
Publisher : Beaumont Pub.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Testudinidae
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Author : Jeanette Wyneken
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1439873070
Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the areas of physiology, behavior, genetics, and health. Volume III presents timely coverage of emerging areas as well as the integration of approaches and information that did not exist even a decade ago. The book assembles the foremost experts in each topic to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on sea turtles available today. New areas covered include in vivo imaging of structure, spatial distributions of marine turtles at sea, epibiosis, imprinting, parasitology, and climatic effects. Life history is explored in three chapters covering age determination, predator-prey interactions, and mortality from bycatch. The Biology of Sea Turtles, Volume III will inspire scientists and students to explore and expand their understanding of these intriguing animals. The book provides clear baseline summaries, thoughtful syntheses, and effective presentation of the most fundamental topics spanning form and function, health, distributions, behavior, genetics, evolution, and ecology. Its scope and depth make it the definitive go-to reference in the field.
Author : Lee K Curtis
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0643104577
Queensland is home to 70% of Australia’s native mammals (226 species), over 70% of native birds (630 species), just over half of the nation’s native reptiles (485) and native frogs (127), and more than 11 000 native plant species. Hundreds of these have a threatened status in Queensland. In order for Queensland to maintain and recover a healthy biodiversity we must address the serious problems faced by our natural environment – habitat loss, inappropriate land management, change in fire regimes, pollution of natural resources, proliferation of invasive species and climate change. This book features up-to-date distribution data, photos and maps for most of Queensland’s threatened animals. It also includes a comprehensive list of resources, with key state, national and international organisations involved in the recovery and management of threatened species. Queensland's Threatened Animals will provide vital information to scientists, educators, business entities, government agencies, students, community groups, environmental NGOs, regional NRMs and potential volunteers.
Author : Donald C. Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674264673
Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any wonder the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging book physiologist Donald Jackson shares a lifetime of observation of this curious creature, allowing us a look under the shell of an animal at once so familiar and so strange. Here we discover how the turtle’s proverbial slowness helps it survive a long, cold winter under ice. How the shell not only serves as a protective home but also influences such essential functions as buoyancy control, breathing, and surviving remarkably long periods without oxygen, and how many other physiological features help define this unique animal. Jackson offers insight into what exactly it’s like to live inside a shell—to carry the heavy carapace on land and in water, to breathe without an expandable ribcage, to have sex with all that body armor intervening. Along the way we also learn something about the process of scientific discovery—how the answer to one question leads to new questions, how a chance observation can change the direction of study, and above all how new research always builds on the previous work of others. A clear and informative exposition of physiological concepts using the turtle as a model organism, the book is as interesting for what it tells us about scientific investigation as it is for its deep and detailed understanding of how the enduring turtle “works.”
Author : I.L. BOYD
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 1997
Category :
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Freshwater biology
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Author : Gerald L. Kooyman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 1989-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN :
This book is not a conventional review of diving physiology. The coverage of the literature has been selective rather than en compassing, the emphasis has been on field studies rather than laboratory investigations, and the dive responses described are often discussed from the perspective of some of the flaws or weaknesses in the conclusions. Some of these points are of more historical interest to note how our concepts have evolved as we learn more about behavior and responses to natural diving in contrast to forced submersions in the laboratory. As a result there is a degree of evaluation of some experiments on my part that may seem obvious or controversial to the specialist. I have followed this planat times in order to aid the reader, who I hope is often an untergraduate or graduate stu dent, the nonspecialist, and the layman, in appreciating to some degree the level of dissatisfaction or skepticism about certain areas of research in diving physiology. In view of historical boundaries in vertebrate biology, the subject is of broad enough importance to catch the interest of a wide audience of readers if I have done my job well. For ex ample, of the major epochal transitions or events there have been in vertebrate history, three come immediately to mind: (1) The transition from aquatic to aerial respiration which ultimately led to a broad occupation of terrestrial habitats. (2) The development of endothermy.
Author : Daniel Lunney
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Amphibians
ISBN :
Herpetology in Australia: a diverse discipline.
Author : Jonathan David Roy Houghton
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Sea turtles
ISBN :