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.
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.
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