Finally, an eBook version of this now classic textbook has become available. Largely based
on the 6th edition, published in 2000, this version is competitively priced. Written by well …

Эволюционная экология КНИГИ; НАУКА и УЧЕБА Название: Эволюционная экология
Автор: Эрик Пианка Издательство: М.: Мир Год: 1981 Страниц: 400 Формат: pdf …

Adaptation to altitude hypoxia is characterized by a variety offunctional changes which
collectively facilitate oxygen trans port from the ambient medium to the cells of the body. All …

I have spent less time in the arid zone in the last few years than I did during the 1960's,
1970's and early 1980's. This results from a progression through age and a career structure …

It is difficult for me to recollect a time when I was not fascinated with the very notion of a
desert. Walt Disney's film, The Living Desert, which I initially saw when I was 8 years of age …

Small insectivorous tree-roosting bats are among the most taxonomically diverse group of
mammals in Australia's desert, yet little is known about their thermal physiology, torpor …

Learning processes have been implicated in drug tolerance, but the role of associative
mechanisms in adaptation to stressors has not previously been determined. Rats that …

Abstract Statement of Problem. As people get older in our society, their activities tend to
decline and they often exhibit signs of deterioration to varying degrees which become …

A procedure in which female Long-Evans rats were swum to a criterion of fatigue was
utilized to assess the contextual determinants of adaptation to exercise. In Experiment 1, it …

Key adaptations enabling mammals to cope with oxygen deficiency at high elevations relate
to oxygen transfer into the blood. Among others, the efficiency of this mechanism depends …