Environmental Physiology
- ISBN-10
- 0749258535
- ISBN-13
- 9780749258535
- Series
- ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY
- Category
- Animal mechanics
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Author
- Robin Harding
Description
Our understanding of animal physiology has changed radically in recent years. In addition to the major advances in laboratory techniques, technological developments have enabled researchers to study physiological variables in free-living animals rather than just in laboratory experiments, and this has changed the emphasis of many investigations. The study of animals in their undisturbed state has been variously referred to as 'whole-animal physiology', 'physiological ecology' or 'environmental physiology'. However, developments in other disciplines within the Life Sciences have had an impact on physiology too, particularly the new techniques in molecular biology. Now it is becoming possible to study not only the small but significant differences in physiology that exist within and between species, but also to understand what processes and genes underlie these differences and how they might have evolved. So the study of animal physiology now crosses a range of disciplines, including evolutionary biology and genetics.In this book you will study animal physiology in an integrated way. The book emphasizes the links between disciplines and demonstrates that integrative physiology is more than just comparisons between species.
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