| 书目名称 | Current Perspectives on the Functional Design of the Avian Respiratory System |
| 编辑 | John N. Maina |
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| 概述 | Provides detailed explanation of evolution of birds and attainment of respiratory structural and functional elegance.Describes how birds breathe and secure the considerable amount of oxygen required f |
| 丛书名称 | Zoological Monographs |
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| 描述 | .Birds have and continue to fascinate scientists and the general public. While the avian respiratory system has unremittingly been investigated for nearly five centuries, important aspects on its biology remain cryptic and controversial. In this book, resolving some of the contentious issues, developmental-, structural- and functional aspects of the avian lung-air sac system are particularized: it endeavors to answer following fundamental questions on the biology of birds: how, when and why did birds become what they are? .Flight is a unique form of locomotion. It considerably shaped the form and the essence of birds as animals. An exceptionally efficient respiratory system capacitated birds to procure the exceptionally large quantities of oxygen needed for powered (active) flight. Among the extant air-breathing vertebrates, comprising ~11,000 species, birds are the most species-rich-, numerically abundant- and extensively distributed animal taxon. After realizing volancy,they easily overcame geographical obstacles and extensively dispersed into various ecological niches where they underwent remarkable adaptive radiation. While the external morphology of birds is inconceivably unif |
| 出版日期 | Book 2023 |
| 关键词 | Air Sacs; Avian Breathing Mechanism; Avian Lung Evolution; Avian Pulmonary Circulation; Comparative Morp |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35180-8 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-35182-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-35180-8Series ISSN 2523-3904 Series E-ISSN 2523-3912 |
| issn_series | 2523-3904 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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