Titlebook: Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles; John L. Cloudsley-Thompson Book 1991 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991 Anpassung.Gli

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82180-6intenance of body temperature within a specified and usually fairly narrow range, whereas temperature control is much less precise. In the latter, rates of change may be modified, or a difference between body temperature and ambient temperature is maintained. In arthropods and reptiles, thermal regu

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Kun Sang Lee,Jinhyung Cho,Ji Ho Lee air is so greatly increased at high temperatures, heat and drought are the two most important elements of the climate of arid environments. The problem of dehydration in desert animals reflects both the high saturation deficiency of the atmosphere, which is usually more difficult to avoid than high

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CO2-Laser in der Stapeschirurgieenemies. During their daily sojourn in retreats and burrows, nocturnal animals avoid the extremes of all these parameters. Even so, they do not entirely escape them, for the desert may still be hot at night, or it can be cold. It can be very dry, or flooded (Sect. 6.3), and enemies are never absent.

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Stoffeigenschaften von Kohlendioxid further aspects of synecology, of course, including parasitism, pollination, symbiosis, and so on, but they are probably less widespread and ecologically important than predation. The basis of the food webs in the desert has already been discussed (Sect. 2.5): here, we shall concentrate upon nutrit

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-9015-3ups include taxa whose ecophysiology is such that they can exist and even thrive under desert conditions, mainly by avoiding thermal extremes and by the refinement of a pre-existing ability to economize in water. Nevertheless, lizards of the Australian genus . are unable to reduce evaporative water