Robert W. Blake (ed.)

Efficiency and Economy in Animal Physiology

Herausgeber: Blake, Robert W.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780521019064
• ISBN-10: 0521019060
• Artikelnr.: 22395193

Inhaltsangabe

1. Efficiency, effectiveness, perfection, optimization: their use in
understanding vertebrate evolution C. Gans; 2. On the efficiency of energy
transformations in cells and animals R. W. Blake; 3. Adapting skeletal
muscle to be efficient C. J. Pennycuick; 4. Efficiency and other criteria
for evaluating the quality of structural biomaterials J. M. Gosline; 5.
Efficiency and optimization in the design of skeletal support systems A. A.
A . Biewener and J. E. A. Bertram; 6. Efficiency in aquatic locomotion:
limitations from single cells to animals T. Daniel; 7. The concepts of
efficiency and economy in land locomotion R. J. Full; 8. Respiration in
air-breathing vertebrates: optimisation and efficiency in design and
function W. K. Milsom; 9. Cardiac energetics and the design of vertebrate
arterial systems D. R. Jones; 10. An evolutionary perspective on the
concept of efficiency; how does function evolve? G. V. Lauder.