General Ecology: Animal Physiology
Animal physiology is the study of how animals work and the biological processes essential for animal life, at levels of organisation from membranes to the whole animal. It is closely linked with anatomy and with basic physico-chemical laws that constrain living as well as non-living systems. Despite...
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| description | Animal physiology is the study of how animals work and the biological processes essential for animal life, at levels of organisation from membranes to the whole animal. It is closely linked with anatomy and with basic physico-chemical laws that constrain living as well as non-living systems. Despite these constraints, there is a diversity ofmechanisms and processes by which different animals work. The discipline of animalphysiology is underpinned by the concept of homeostasis of the intra- and extra-cellularenvironments, neural and endocrine systems for homeostatic regulation, and the variousphysiological systems including ionic and osmotic balance, excretion, respiration,circulation, metabolism, digestion and temperature. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-469532019-02-19T05:35:07Z General Ecology: Animal Physiology Cooper, Christine Withers, P. Endotherm Plant Physiology Respiration Temperature Circulation Ion balance Regulation Homeostasis Hormones Endocrine - Physiological Ecology Digestion Temperature Regulation Nervous system Water balance - Respiration Ectotherms Excretion Homeotherms Metabolism Animal physiology is the study of how animals work and the biological processes essential for animal life, at levels of organisation from membranes to the whole animal. It is closely linked with anatomy and with basic physico-chemical laws that constrain living as well as non-living systems. Despite these constraints, there is a diversity ofmechanisms and processes by which different animals work. The discipline of animalphysiology is underpinned by the concept of homeostasis of the intra- and extra-cellularenvironments, neural and endocrine systems for homeostatic regulation, and the variousphysiological systems including ionic and osmotic balance, excretion, respiration,circulation, metabolism, digestion and temperature. 2008 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46953 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00456-0 Elsevier fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Endotherm Plant Physiology Respiration Temperature Circulation Ion balance Regulation Homeostasis Hormones Endocrine - Physiological Ecology Digestion Temperature Regulation Nervous system Water balance - Respiration Ectotherms Excretion Homeotherms Metabolism Cooper, Christine Withers, P. General Ecology: Animal Physiology |
| title | General Ecology: Animal Physiology |
| title_full | General Ecology: Animal Physiology |
| title_fullStr | General Ecology: Animal Physiology |
| title_full_unstemmed | General Ecology: Animal Physiology |
| title_short | General Ecology: Animal Physiology |
| title_sort | general ecology: animal physiology |
| topic | Endotherm Plant Physiology Respiration Temperature Circulation Ion balance Regulation Homeostasis Hormones Endocrine - Physiological Ecology Digestion Temperature Regulation Nervous system Water balance - Respiration Ectotherms Excretion Homeotherms Metabolism |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46953 |