rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Homeostasis in Desert Reptiles
  name:
    name part: Bradshaw, S. Donald.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages 62 illustrations)
  abstract: The constancy of the internal environment and the concept of homeostasis have been two powerful organising paradigms in the field of vertebrate physiology since they were first enunciated in the late 19th and early 20th century. This book examines the extent to which desert-living reptiles are governed by these same principles which spring from the study of the more physically advanced birds and mammals. Ecophysiological studies on reptiles by S.D. Bradshaw show that they experience major changes in the composition of their internal environment, especially during periods of prolonged water deprivation. One of the central questions is whether such episodes result from an inherently limited ability to regulate the composition of the body fluids, or whether they should be viewed as adaptive responses.
  note: by S. Donald Bradshaw.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physiology
  classification: QP82-82.2
  classification: 571.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Adaptations of desert organisms
  identifier: 9783642603556 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3642603556 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783642643682
  identifier: 364264368X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422204354.6
    record identifier: in00003568974
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng