Environmental Physiology of Animals

By: PAT WILLMER, 
GRAHAM STONE, University of Edinburgh 
IAN JOHNSTON, University of St Andrews 

The new and updated edition of this accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of the comparative physiology of animals within an environmental context. 

• Includes two brand new chapters on Nerves and Muscles and the Endocrine System.
• Discusses both comparative systems physiology and environmental physiology.
• Analyses and integrates problems and adaptations for each kind of environment: marine, seashore and estuary, freshwater, terrestrial and parasitic.
• Examines mechanisms and responses beyond physiology.
• Applies an evolutionary perspective to the analysis of environmental adaptation.
• Provides modern molecular biology insights into the mechanistic basis of adaptation, and takes the level of analysis beyond the cell to the membrane, enzyme and gene.
• Incorporates more varied material from a wide range of animal types, with less of a focus purely on terrestrial reptiles, birds and mammals and rather more about the spectacularly successful strategies of invertebrates.   

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Chapter 1	(639 KB)		Chapter 10	(4.44 MB)
Chapter 2	(1.58 MB)		Chapter 11	(5.04 MB)
Chapter 3	(1.22 MB)		Chapter 12	(3.00 MB)
Chapter 4	(2.37 MB)		Chapter 13	(3.86 MB)
Chapter 5	(3.02 MB)		Chapter 14	(1.46 MB)
Chapter 6	(2.34 MB)		Chapter 15	(6.28 MB)
Chapter 7	(3.11 MB)		Chapter 16	(4.03 MB)
Chapter 8	(3.48 MB)		Chapter 17	(1.95 MB)
Chapter 9	(14.99 MB)		Plates	(3.56 MB)