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Lucky planet : why Earth is exceptional-- and what that means for life in the universe / by Waltham, David.(CARDINAL)436477;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: a tale of two planets -- Almost too good to be true -- Mediocrity -- Rarely earth -- Constant change -- Air conditioning -- Snowballs and greenhouses -- Staggering through time -- Music of the spheres -- Force of nature -- Pond weeds and daisies -- Life's big bang -- Eclipse -- The dark side of the moon -- Gaia or Goldilocks? -- Epilogue: siblings.
Subjects: Bioclimatology.; Life; Life on other planets.;
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Geographic and climatic relationships of avifaunas with special reference to comparative distribution in the neotropics / by Slud, Paul.(CARDINAL)294579;
Bibliography: pages 135-149.
Subjects: Birds; Birds; Bioclimatology.;
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Driven to extinction : the impact of climate change on biodiversity / by Pearson, Richard G.(Richard Grenville),1977-(CARDINAL)319604; American Museum of Natural History.(CARDINAL)138269;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-254) and index.A climate for life -- Herps on hills -- To the ends of the earth -- Out of sync -- A global fingerprint -- Extinction risk -- Running to keep still -- Complex communities -- Crying wolf? -- Twenty-first-century conservation.Explores the possible effects of global warming and climate change on more than a million species around the globe. Could more than a million species disappear in the 21st century? Drawing upon a wide range of illuminating case studies from around the world, this book provides a balanced and highly readable insight into the potential impacts of climate change on the diversity of life. Here the author assembles the evidence of how species of plants and animals have reacted to temperature changes in the past, and how they are likely to respond in the future. He shows how different species are interconnected, how subtle yet essential those connections can be, and how severing one link in the complex chain of mutual cooperation and dependency can lead to the breakdown of a once-thriving community and, ultimately, extinction. At the same time, he also explores how climate change can offer some species new opportunities even as it narrows prospects for others, highlighting the adaptability and survival techniques of some of the weirdest and most wonderful creatures on the planet.
Subjects: Bioclimatology.; Biodiversity conservation.; Biodiversity.; Climatic changes.; Extinction (Biology);
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Hurricane lizards and plastic squid : the fraught and fascinating biology of climate change / by Hanson, Thor,author.(CARDINAL)344000;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Thinking about it -- Nothing stays the same -- Mephitic air -- Right place, wrong time -- The nth degree -- Strange bedfellows -- The bare necessities -- Move -- Adapt -- Evolve -- Take refuge -- Pushing the envelope -- Surprise, surprise -- That was then, this is now -- Conclusion: Everything you can."In his three previous books-Feathers, The Triumph of Seeds, and Buzz-Thor Hanson has taken his readers on unforgettable journeys into nature, rendered with great storytelling, the soul of a poet, and the insight of a biologist. In this new book, he is doing it again, but exploring one of the most vital scientific and cultural issues of our time: climate change. As a young biologist, Hanson by his own admission watched with some detachment as our warming planet presented plants and animals with an ultimatum: change or face extinction. But his detachment turned to both concern and awe, as he observed the remarkable narratives of change playing out in each plant and animal he studied. In Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, Hanson tells the story of how nature-both plants and animals, from beech trees to beetles-are meeting the challenges of rapid climate change head-on, adjusting, adapting, and sometimes noticeably evolving. Brown pelicans are fleeing uphill, seeking out new lives in the mountains. Gorillas in Uganda are turning to new food sources, such as eucalyptus trees (which humans only imported to Africa in the past several decades), as their old sources wain. Auklets, a little sea bird, aren't so lucky: changes in the lifecycles of their primary food source means they return at specific times of year to oceanic feeding grounds expecting plankton blooms that are no longer there. As global warming transforms and restructures the ecosystems in which these animals and others live, Hanson argues, we areforced to conclude that climate change will not have just one effect: Some transformations are beneficial. Others, and perhaps most, are devastating, wiping out entire species. One thing is constant: with each change an organism undergoes, the delicate balance of interdependent ecosystems is tipped, forcing the evolution of thousands more species, including us. To understand how, collectively, these changes are shaping the natural world and the future of life, Hanson looks back through deep time, examining fossil records, pollen, and even the tooth enamel of giant wombats and mummified owl pellets. Together, these records of our past tell the story of ancient climate change, shedding light on the challenges faced by today's species, the ways they will respond, and how these strategies will determine the fate of ecosystems around the globe. Ultimately, the story of nature's response to climate change is both fraught and fascinating, a story of both disaster and resilience, and, sometimes, hope. Lyrical and thought-provoking, Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is poised to transform the conversation around climate change, shifting the focus from humans to the lattice of life, of which humans are just a single point"--
Subjects: Bioclimatology.; Adaptation (Biology); Biotic communities.; Global environmental change.; Climatic changes.;
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Climate change and biodiversity / by Idzikowski, LisaEditor of compilation(DLC)no2014035372;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-172) and index.Introduction -- Does climate change pose an immediate threat? -- Is climate the only factor in changes of biodiversity? -- Are changes in climate a natural phenomenon? -- Are climate change and loss of biodiversity preventable? -- Organizations to contact.With significantly hotter average temperatures, an increase in natural disasters, and rising oceans, the reality of climate change is hard to miss. Predictions about the future of Earth and its inhabitants vary, from hopeful to frantic to doomsday scenarios. Does climate change pose an immediate threat to Earth's biodiversity? What other factors have resulted in biodiversity changes, and are they as severe as the impacts caused by climate change? Is there enough time to mitigate and even reverse the destruction we have caused?
Subjects: Biodiversity; Bioclimatology.; Climatic changes.; Nature;
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Environmental physiology / by Fregly, Melvin J.(CARDINAL)324917; Blatteis, Clark M.(CARDINAL)324916; American Physiological Society (1887- )(CARDINAL)324915;
Includes bibliographical references and index.V. 1. Adaptation to the environment: overview -- Adaptations: some general characteristics -- Physical forces, sensory reception, and response to the environment -- Interplay of behavioral and physiological mechanisms in adaptation -- Thermal environment -- Mechanisms of homeostatic responses to thermal stimulation -- Mechanisms of heat exchange: biophysics and physiology -- Peripheral thermosensors -- Hypothalamic neurons regulating body temperature -- Interaction of body temperatures in control of thermoregulatory effector mechanisms -- Evidence for roles of brain peptides in thermoregulation -- Adaptive responses to heat -- Thermoregulatory responses to acute exercise-heat stress and heat acclimation -- Body fluid balance during heat stress in humans -- Cardiovascular adjustments to heat stress -- Endocrinological and metabolic responses to acute and chronic heat exposures -- Heat stress and behavior -- Estivation -- Limitation of heat tolerance -- Adaptive responses to cold -- Homeostatic responses to acute cold exposure: thermogenic responses in birds and mammals -- Human thermoregulatory responses to acute cold stress with special reference to water immersion -- Thermogenic responses to prolonged cold exposure: birds and mammals -- Homeostatic responses to prolonged cold exposure: human cold acclimatization -- Neural and hormonal responses to prolonged cold exposure -- Behavioral thermoregulation in the cold -- Torpor and hibernation in mammals: metabolic, physiological, and biochemical adaptations -- Hibernation in mammals: central nervous system function -- Responses to seasonal change in polar mammals -- Limits of tolerance to hypothermia -- Integrative responses to heat and cold -- Central regulation of adaptive responses to heat and cold -- Ontogenetic and adaptive adjustments in the thermoregularoty system -- Modeling homeostatic responses to heat and cold -- Gravitational environment -- Microgravity -- Cardiovascular system in microgravity -- Respiratory system in microgravity -- Skeleton and its adaptation to gravity -- Neuromuscular adaptations to actual and simulated spaceflight -- Adaptation of the vestibular system to microgravity.V. 2. Radiation in microgravity -- Effect of spaceflight on lymphocyte function and immunity -- Exercise and adaptation to microgravity environments -- Renal, endocrine, and hemodynamic effects of water immersion in humans -- Head-out water immersion: animal studies -- Physiology of bed rest -- Hypergravity -- Adaptation to accleration environments -- Hyperbaric environment -- Underwater physiology of man -- Hyperbaria/diving: introduction -- Hyperbaria: breath-hold diving -- Gas physiology in diving -- Mixed-gas saturation diving -- Diving mammals -- Diving physiology of the Weddell seal -- Terrestrial altitude environment -- Evolutionary aspects of atmospheric oxygen and organisms -- Tissue capacity for mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and its adaptation to stress -- Metabolic defense adaptations to hyperbaric hypoxia in man -- Hypoxia, erythropoietin gene expression, and erythropoiesis -- Morphologic and metabolic response to chronic hypoxia: the muscle system -- Peripheral chemoreceptors and their sensory neurons in chronic states of hypo- and hyperoxygenation -- Ventilatory responses to acute and chronic hypoxia -- Cardiovascular system at high altitude -- Endocrine adaptation to hypoxia -- Body fluid and energy metabolism at high altitude -- Brain hypoxia: metabolic and ventilatory depression -- Physiology of extreme altitude -- Chronobiological environment -- Circadian rhythms -- Sleep, thermoregulation, and circadian rhythms -- Relationship between food and sleep -- Nutritional environment -- Human adaptation to energy undernutrition -- Physiological responses of mammals to overnutrition -- Effects of altered vitamin and mineral nutritional status on temperature regulation and thermogenesis in the cold -- Nutrition and exercise in adverse environments -- Intestinal adaptation to environmental stress -- Microbial environment -- Adaptation to the microbial environment -- Psychosocial environment -- Place of behavior in physiology -- Neuroimmunomodulation: neuroimmune interactions with the environment.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Ecophysiology; Bioclimatology; Human beings; Adaptation (Physiology);
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