Adaptation To Life In The Desert
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Author | : Martin Williams |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2014-08-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1107016916 |
A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.
Author | : Julie Murphy |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1429660309 |
"Simple text and photographs describe desert animal adaptations"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Amiram Shkolnik |
Publisher | : Gantner Publishing |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2002-08-28 |
Genre | : 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 | : Brenda Z. Guiberson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1993-10-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780805029604 |
"Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers."--Title page verso.
Author | : Kamal H. Batanouny |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Bobby Kennedy Shea |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : William G. McGinnies |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0816536783 |
Now you can share the experiences of the first U.S. scientists who set about discovering the nature of North American deserts. "This is a fascinating account of how these pioneer ecologists laid the foundations for our modern knowledge of plant adaptation to desert environments. . . . It is well done." (American Scientist)
Author | : J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Desert biology |
ISBN | : 9788439926825 |
Discusses those plants and animals that have adapted to life in the climatic extremes of the desert.