Widespread recognition of the importance of biological studies at large spatial and temporal
scales, particularly in the face of many of the most pressing issues facing humanity, has …

A little more than a decade ago, physiological ecology lay at a cross-roads. In relatively short
succession, two major symposia were convened to examine both the successes of the field …

Here is a uniquely modern approach to the study of physiological diversity that builds on the
tradition established by C. Ladd Prosser's Comparative Animal Physiology. Responding to …

Schwenk et al.(2009) provided an overview of five major challenges in organismal
biology:(1) understanding the organism's role in organism–environment linkages;(2) utilizing …

Physiological ecology has grown in importance as an area of biology in the past thirty years
and integrates the diverse approaches used in the comparative biology of organisms …

This book is not a conventional review of diving physiology. The coverage of the literature
has been selective rather than en compassing, the emphasis has been on field studies …

The last decade has seen an explosion of research in macroecology. This is evidenced by
the rapid increase in the number of publications which contain the word macroecology in …

" The objectives of comparative physiology are:(1) to describe the diverse ways which
different kinds of animals meet their functional requirements;(2) to elucidate evolutionary …

▪ Abstract Evolutionary physiology represents an explicit fusion of two complementary
approaches: evolution and physiology. Stimulated by four major intellectual and …

The foundations of modern craniology were constructed by several equally brilliant
investigators, each of whom fortunately worked in differing yet complementary areas. Among …