A Companion to Animal Physiology

Originally published in 1982, this book was designed to supplement Knut Schmidt-Nielsen's Animal Physiology.

C. Richard Taylor (Edited by), Kjell Johansen (Edited by), Liana Bolis (Edited by)

9780521286855, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 April 1982

384 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.56 kg

Originally published in 1982, this book was designed to supplement Knut Schmidt-Nielsen's Animal Physiology. Using Schmidt-Nielsen's comparative approach to the study of animal form function, the text pursues in greater detail topics introduced in Animal Physiology. Like the textbook, the Companion is organised according to major environmental features: oxygen, food and energy, temperature, and water, concluding with a section on movement and structure. The papers brought together in this volume were presented in July 1980 to honour Smith-Nielsen's sixty-fifth birthday, at the Fifth International Conference on Comparative Physiology, held in Sandbjerg, Denmark.

List of participants
About this book
About Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Part I. Oxygen: Overview
1. A model for comparing gas-exchange systems in vertebrates Peter Scheid
2. Mount Everest and beyond: breathing air Pierre Dejours
3. The pathway for oxygen: lung to mitochondria Ewald R. Weibel
4. A model for evaluating diffusion limitation in gas-exchange organs of vertebrates Johannes Piiper
5. Oxygen transport in vertebrate blood: challenges Peter Lutz
6. Strategies of blood acid-base control in ectothermic vertebrates Donald C. Jackson
7. Blood, circulation, and the rise of air-breathing: passes and bypasses Kjell Johansen
Part II. Food and Energy: Overview
8. Nutrition, growth, and aging: some new ideas Denis Bellamy
9. Comparison of embryonic development in birds and mammals: birth weight, time, and cost Hermann Rahn
10. Anaerobic metabolism: living without oxygen P. W. Hochachka
11. How marine mammals dive G. L. Kooyman
12. Scaling limits of metabolism to body size: implications for animal design C. Richard Taylor
Part III. Temperature: Overview
13. The circadian rhythm of body temperature as a function of body size Jürgen Aschoff
14. Temperature regulation in exercising birds Marvin H. Bernstein
15. Behavioral and autonomic thermoregulation in terrestrial ectotherms Eugene C. Crawford, Jr.
16. Warm fish Francis G. Carey
Part IV. Water: Overview
17. Roles of vertebrate skin in osmoregulation P. J. Bentley
18. Salt glands: a perspective and prospective view M. Peaker
19. Renal countercurrent mechanicms, or how to get something for (almost) nothing Reinier Beeuwkes III
20. Insects: small size and osmoregulation Simon Maddrell
Part V. Movement and Structure: Overview
21. Size, shape, and structure for running and flight R. McN. Alexander
22. Structural systems: hydrostats and frameworks Stephen A. Wainwright
23. Weightlessness: from Galileo to Apollo Claude Lenfant and Shou-teh Chiang
Index.

Subject Areas: Animal physiology [PSVD]