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The maintenance of a stable acid-base status within biological tissue is a fundamental homeostatic process in all organisms, necessary to preserve the metabolic function of proteins and other macromolecules. The study of acid-base regulation has advanced...

Predator sensitive foraging represents the strategies that animals employ to balance the need to eat against the need to avoid being eaten. Ecologists working with a wide range of taxa have developed sophisticated theoretical models of these strategies,...

Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay breeding and invest in the offspring of others, cooperative breeding poses a challenge to a Darwinian...

Many mammals, such as otters, live in close association with rivers and streams, feeding in them, or using them as a place of safety or means of escape from predators. The distinct adaptations that riparian mammals have evolved in order to live in these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780428588199Author Philogène WytsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 487Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366048175Author Zoological Society of LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 505Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780365955894Author Royal Society of LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780365952084Author Entomological Society of AmericaFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780282666606Author Robert JamesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Bird song is one of the most remarkable and impressive sounds in the natural world, and has inspired not only students of natural history, but also great writers, poets and composers. Extensively updated from the first edition, the main thrust of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674334403Author George Howard ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 549g

This book attempts to explore the contribution that biochemistry has made, thus far, to our understanding of the endocrine pancreas and its relationship to diabetes mellitus. It was written with the aim of using an important clinical problem to...

Game theory has revolutionized the study of animal behavior. The fundamental principle of evolutionary game theory-that the strategy adopted by one individual depends on the strategies exhibited by others-has proven a powerful tool in uncovering the...

This 1984 book arose from an international meeting held at Texel in the Netherlands in April 1981 to discuss the feeding requirements and behaviour of shorebirds and coastal wildfowl. The book was designed both for general ornithologists, so that they...

The last few years have seen the rapid development of new methodology in the field of molecular biology. New techniques have been regularly introduced and the sensitivity of older techniques greatly improved upon. Developments in the field of genetic...

Considers the processes and problems involved in multidisciplinary approaches to vision, focusing not only on detection tasks involving correlations between visual thresholds and cellular sensitivities, but also on the current status of neuron doctrines,...

In this introductory text, Dr. Birdi demonstrates experimental methods and analyses of fractal dimensions in natural processes. In addition to a general overview, he discusses in detail problems in the fields of chemistry, geochemistry, and biophysics...

Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Granada, Spain, October 1991, with the objective of bringing together physicists and biologists with a common interest in pattern growth and in applying new tools across the areas of their...

This book came about as a result of a review I had written earlier on fea tures of cellular changes occurring during anuran metamorphosis. Only a limited treatment of this subject was possible in such a circumscribed work and only specific examples of...

This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to know what role mathematics can play in attempting to comprehend the dynamics of the human brain. It also aims to serve as a general introduction to neuromathematics. The book gives the reader a...

It is now 17 years since the junior author's book Parasitic protozoa was first published, and 13 years since it received limited revision. The study of symbiotic protozoa has meanwhile progressed, and much of the content of the earlier book has been...

Some years ago a book reviewer, perhaps with Freudian honesty, remarked that the book in question 'filled a much needed gap in the literature'. That phrase has haunted the writing of this gap-filler and this preface may be considered an apologia. For a...

Inhibitors of cholinesterases have important applications in agricultural pest control, and in the medical treatment of myasthenia gravis and glaucoma, and the management of Alzheimer's disease. From an April 1992 conference in Eilat, Israel, 38 papers...

Understanding the functioning of ecosystems requires the understanding of the interactions between consumer species and their resources. How do these interactions affect the variations of population abundances? How do population abundances determine the...

In the limited scope of this book I wish to present a brief review of the progressive destruction of nature, particularly in the domain of animal life, and at the same time to ill- trate some of the possibilities by BIII:- Ion-.--------------, which man...

This book focuses on those virus families that are found primarily or exclusively in insects, covering all major families of insect-selective viruses except for the baculoviruses which were described in a previous volume of "The Viruses" series...

First printed in 1983, this book concerns the comparative physiological adaptations of vertebrate animals, especially mammals, to cessation of breathing. These adaptations were originally identified in species living in aquatic habitats. The argument is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792314592Author L. WatlingFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers

This text contains a collection of papers dealing with various aspects of the biology and aquaculture of the large branchiopod crustacea - the Anostraca, Conchostraca, and Notostraca. Included are many of the papers presented at the Second International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674436213Author William C StebbinsFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 431g

It is now more than half a century since animal cells first came into regular use in the laboratory. Instances of laboratory acquired infection and con tamination of therapeutic products, derived from the use of animal cell cultures are rare. The use of...

This text is an introduction to the interface between the actin cytoskeleton and the myriad of issues fundamental to the understanding of the nervous system. It covers the neurobiology of actin ranging from basic cellular organization and function to the...

The field of DNA repair is vast and advancing rapidly. Recent investigations have begun to focus on the involvement of chromatin in the repair of broken DNA. Although I have no doubt that many breakthroughs in our understanding of chromatin, chromatin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674180833Author Everett MendelsohnFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 490g

Approximately 99.9% of vertebrate species reproduce sexually. The exceptional 0.1% reproduce via asexual or clonal means, which vary wildly and are fascinating in their own right. In this book, John C. Avise describes the genetics, ecology, natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674498259Author Peter W HochachkaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Jellyfish, a group that includes scyphomedusae, hydromedusae, siphonophores and ctenophores, are important zooplankton predators throughout the world's estuaries and oceans. These beautiful creatures have come to public attention as featured exhibits in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788425332Author Barbara Stickley SourFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 395g

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of com prehensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modem auditory research. It is aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274138Author Manabu FukumotoFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g