Environmental Stress and Behavioural Adaptation

by John Davenport

It is generally agreed that animal life originated in the sea and that adaptive radiation subsequently led to the colonisaHon of other environments - shores and estuaries, streams and lakes, bog, mountain and desert. In their invasion of these habitats animals left the equable, relatively stabl.e surroundings of the open sea and subjected themselves to the rigours of temperature fluctuations and extremes, a variety of ionic backgrounds, areas of depleted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401160759
• ISBN13: 9789401160759
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"