Environmental Physiology of Desert Organisms. Stroudsburg, Pa
Author : N. F. HADLEY
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Author : N. F. HADLEY
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Author : Neil F. Hadley
Publisher : Dowden Hutchinson and Ross
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1975
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Heat flux and the thermal regime of desert plants; Adaptations of desert lichens to drought and extreme temperatures; Dynamics of great basin shrub root systems; Environmental and plant factors influencing transpiration of desert plants; Coloration and its thermal consequences for diurnal desert insects. Thermoregulation and flight energetics of desert insects; Nitrogen excretion in arid-adapted amphibians; The water relations of two populations of noncaptive desert rodents.
Author : Tempe Symposium on Environmental Physiology of Desert Organisms (Arizona, 1974)
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Page : 283 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : N. F. HADLEY
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Author : Michael A. Mares
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0806172290
Encyclopedia of Deserts represents a milestone: it is the first comprehensive reference to the first comprehensive reference to deserts and semideserts of the world. Approximately seven hundred entries treat subjects ranging from desert survival to the way deserts are formed. Topics include biology (birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, bacteria, physiology, evolution), geography, climatology, geology, hydrology, anthropology, and history. The thirty-seven contributors, including volume editor Michael A. Mares, have had extensive careers in deserts research, encompassing all of the world’s arid and semiarid regions. The Encyclopedia opens with a subject list by topic, an organizational guide that helps the reader grasp interrelationships and complexities in desert systems. Each entry concludes with cross-references to other entries in the volume, inviting the reader to embark on a personal expedition into fascinating, previously unknown terrain. In addition a list of important readings facilitates in-depth study of each topic. An exhaustive index permits quick access to places, topics, and taxonomic listings of all plants and animals discussed. More than one hundred photographs, drawings, and maps enhance our appreciation of the remarkable life, landforms, history, and challenges of the world’s arid land.
Author : Stanley D. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642592120
Following a description of the physical and biological characterization of the four North American deserts together with the primary adaptations of plants to environmental stress, the authors go on to present case studies of key species. They provide an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the major patterns of adaptation in desert plants, with one chapter devoted to several important exotic plants that have invaded these deserts. The whole is rounded off with a synthesis of the resource requirements of desert plants and how they may respond to global climate change.
Author : Park S. Nobel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521543347
A comprehensive review of these two interesting and economically important desert succulents.
Author : David Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199211469
"This accessible text is suitable for both senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in desert ecology. It will also appeal to researchers new to the field and to the many professional ecologists and conservation practitioners requiring a concise but authoritative overview of this fascinating habitat."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : C. S. Crawford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642857949
What little we know of the biology of desert invertebrates stems largely from inferences based on intensive and repeated observations. Such informa tion is not gained easily, since despite the actual abundance of these animals, relatively few of them are ever seen. In fact, except for species impacting on the well-being of human populations, historically most have been ignored by scholars in the western world. Indeed, it was ancient Egypt, with its reverence for the symbolism of the scarab, that probably provided us with the clearest early record of prominent desert types. A more modest resurgence of the story had to wait until the arrival of the present century. To be sure, some of the more obvious species had by then been elevated by European collectors to the level of drawing-room curios ities, and expeditions had returned large numbers to museums. But by 1900 the task of describing desert species and relationships among them was still in its infancy; and as for careful natural history studies, they too were just coming into their own.
Author : Steven M. Horvath
Publisher : North-Holland
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Nature
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