Principles Of Thermal Ecology

Author : A. Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 0191847933

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Principles of Thermal Ecology by A. Clarke Pdf

"Temperature affects everything. It influences all aspects of the physical environment and governs any process that involves a flow of energy, setting boundaries on what an organism can or cannot do. This novel textbook explores the key principles behind the complex relationship between organisms and temperature, namely the science of thermal ecology. It starts providing a rigorous framework for understanding the nature of temperature and the flow of energy in and out of the organism, before describing the influence of temperature on what organisms can do, and how fast they can do it. Central to this is the relationship between temperature and metabolism, which then forms the basis for an exploration of the effects of temperature on growth and size. Two chapters cover first endothermy (including how this expensive lifestyle might have evolved), and then when and how this is suspended in torpor and hibernation. With these fundamental principles covered, the book's final section explores thermal ecology itself, incorporating the important extra dimension of interactions with other organisms. After an examination of the relationship between temperature, energy and diversity, an entire chapter is devoted to the crucially important subject of the nature of climate change and how organisms are responding to this. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on the need for an understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms, and the important insights that can be gained from the historical and fossil record."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Andrew Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192538789

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Principles of Thermal Ecology: Temperature, Energy and Life by Andrew Clarke Pdf

Temperature affects everything. It influences all aspects of the physical environment and governs any process that involves a flow of energy, setting boundaries on what an organism can or cannot do. This novel textbook reveals the key principles behind the complex relationship between organisms and temperature, namely the science of thermal ecology. It starts by providing a rigorous framework for understanding the flow of energy in and out of the organism, before describing the influence of temperature on what organisms can do and how fast they can do it. With these fundamental principles covered, the bulk of the book explores thermal ecology itself, incorporating the important extra dimension of interactions with other organisms. An entire chapter is devoted to the crucially important subject of how organisms are responding to climate change. Indeed, the threat of rapid climatic change on a global scale is a stark reminder of the challenges that remain for evolutionary thermal biologists, and adds a sense of urgency to this book's mission.

Author : Andrew Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199551668

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Principles of Thermal Ecology by Andrew Clarke Pdf

Temperature affects everything. It influences all aspects of the physical environment and governs any process that involves a flow of energy, setting boundaries on what an organism can or cannot do. This novel textbook reveals the key principles behind the complex relationship between organisms and temperature, namely the science of thermal ecology. It starts by providing a rigorous framework for understanding the flow of energy in and out of the organism, before describing the influence of temperature on what organisms can do and how fast they can do it. With these fundamental principles covered, the bulk of the book explores thermal ecology itself, incorporating the important extra dimension of interactions with other organisms. An entire chapter is devoted to the crucially important subject of how organisms are responding to climate change. Indeed, the threat of rapid climatic change on a global scale is a stark reminder of the challenges that remain for evolutionary thermal biologists, and adds a sense of urgency to this book's mission.

Author : Jeremy Walker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811539367

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More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics by Jeremy Walker Pdf

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene. Reconstructing their constitution as separate sciences in the era of fossil-fuelled industrial capitalism, the book offers an explanation of how the ecological sciences have moved from a position of critical collision with mainstream economics in the 1970s, to one of collusion with the project of permanent growth, in and through the thermal crisis of the biosphere.

Author : Negin Imani,Brenda Vale
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000541908

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Heating with Wolves, Cooling with Cacti by Negin Imani,Brenda Vale Pdf

This book describes the detailed process behind the development of a comprehensive thermo-bio-architectural framework (the ThBA). This framework systematically connects the thermal performance requirements of a building to relevant solutions found in the natural world. This is the first time that architecture has been connected to biology in this manner. The book provides an in-depth understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in animals and plants and links these to equivalent solutions in architectural design. The inclusion of this fundamental knowledge, along with the systematic process of accessing it, should open up new avenues for the generation of energy efficient and sustainable buildings.

Author : Gerald W.. Esch,Robert W.. McFarlane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473589794

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Thermal Ecology II. by Gerald W.. Esch,Robert W.. McFarlane Pdf

Author : David Wilkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192884664

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The Fundamental Processes in Ecology by David Wilkinson Pdf

This thought-provoking book introduces a way to study ecosystems that is resonant with current thinking in the fields of earth system science, geobiology, and planetology. Instead of organizing the subject around a hierarchical series of entities (e.g. genes, individuals, populations, species, communities, and the biosphere), the book provides an alternative process-based approach and proposes a truly planetary view of ecological science. It demonstrates how the idea of fundamental ecological processes can be developed at the systems level, specifically their involvement in control and feedback mechanisms. This enables the reader to reconsider fundamental ecological processes such as energy flow, guilds, trade-offs, carbon cycling, and photosynthesis, and to put them in a global (and even planetary) context. In so doing, the book places a much stronger emphasis on microorganisms. Since publication of the first edition in 2006, ever growing societal concern about environmental sustainability has ensured that the earth system science/Gaian approach has steadily gained traction. Its integration with ecology is now more important than ever if ecological science is to effectively contribute to the massive problems and future challenges associated with global environmental change. The Fundamental Processes in Ecology is an accessible text for senior undergraduates, graduate student seminar courses, and researchers in the fields of ecology, environmental sustainability, earth system science, evolutionary biology, palaeontology, history of life, astrobiology, planetology, climatology, geology, and physical geography.

Author : Gerald W. Esch,Robert W. McFarlane
Publisher : U.S. Department of Energy
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:319510000296557

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Thermal Ecology II by Gerald W. Esch,Robert W. McFarlane Pdf

Author : Merle L. Esmay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : WISC:89053493003

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Principles of Animal Environment by Merle L. Esmay Pdf

Animals and environment; Homeostasis of animals; Homeothermy of animals; Psychrometrics; Heat and mass transer as affected by ambient temperature; Humidity and its effect on animals; Convective heat loss from animals; Radiant heat loss from animals; Radiation protection in the hot climate; Poultry and their environment; Heat and vapor transmission in buildings; Heat and water vapor production in livestock and poultry structure; Air exchange in livestock and poultry buildings; Environmental control and the climate; Air flow patterns; Energy conservation principles; Appendix; Index.

Author : Whit Gibbons,Rebecca R. Sharitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Aquatic ecology
ISBN : UOM:39015095256676

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Thermal Ecology by Whit Gibbons,Rebecca R. Sharitz Pdf

Author : D. M. Gates
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461260240

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Biophysical Ecology by D. M. Gates Pdf

The objective of this book is to make analytical methods available to students of ecology. The text deals with concepts of energy exchange, gas exchange, and chemical kinetics involving the interactions of plants and animals with their environments. The first four chapters are designed to show the applications of biophysical ecology in a preliminary, sim plified manner. Chapters 5-10, treating the topics of radiation, convec tion, conduction, and evaporation, are concerned with the physical environment. The spectral properties of radiation and matter are thoroughly described, as well as the geometrical, instantaneous, daily, and annual amounts of both shortwave and longwave radiation. Later chapters give the more elaborate analytical methods necessary for the study of photosynthesis in plants and energy budgets in animals. The final chapter describes the temperature responses of plants and animals. The discipline of biophysical ecology is rapidly growing, and some important topics and references are not included due to limitations of space, cost, and time. The methodology of some aspects of ecology is illustrated by the subject matter of this book. It is hoped that future students of the subject will carry it far beyond its present status. Ideas for advancing the subject matter of biophysical ecology exceed individual capacities for effort, and even today, many investigators in ecology are studying subjects for which they are inadequately prepared. The potential of modern science, in the minds and hands of skilled investigators, to of the interactions of organisms with their advance our understanding environment is enormous.

Author : John Monteith,Mike Unsworth
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780123869937

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Principles of Environmental Physics by John Monteith,Mike Unsworth Pdf

Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere, 4e, provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It is the essential reference to provide environmental and ecological scientists and researchers with the physical principles, analytic tools, and data analysis methods they need to solve problems. This book describes the principles by which radiative energy reaches the earth’s surface and reviews the latest knowledge concerning the surface radiation budget. The processes of radiation, convection, conduction, evaporation, and carbon dioxide exchange are analyzed. Many applications of environmental physics principles are reviewed, including the roles of surface albedo and atmospheric aerosols in modifying microclimate and climate, remote sensing of vegetation properties, wind forces on trees and crops, dispersion of pathogens and aerosols, controls of evaporation from vegetation and soil (including implications of changing weather and climate), and interpretation of micrometeorological measurements of carbon dioxide and other trace gas fluxes. Presents a unique synthesis of micrometeorology and ecology in its widest sense Deals quantitatively with the impact of weather on living systems but also with the interactions between organisms and the atmosphere that are a central feature of life on earth Offers numerous worked examples and problems with solutions Provides many examples of laboratory and field measurements and their interpretation Includes an up-to-date bibliography and review of recent micrometeorological applications in forestry, ecology, hydrology, and agriculture

Author : John Monteith,Mike Unsworth
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080924794

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Principles of Environmental Physics by John Monteith,Mike Unsworth Pdf

Environmental Physics concerns the description and analysis of physical processes that establish the conditions in which all species of life survive and reproduce. The subject involves a synthesis of mathematical relations that describe the physical nature of the environment and the many biological responses that environments evoke. Environmental Physics provides a basis for understanding the complex responses of plants and animals to environmental change. International concern with climate change has made both politicans and the general public much more aware of the impact of local and global weather on all aspects of domestic life, industry and commerce. Environmental Physics has become more widely used by biologists, atmospheric scientists and climate modellers to specify interations between surfaces and the atmosphere. This new edition contains further material on causes of global warming, applications of remote sensing, and the carbon and water cycles of crops and forests. * Presents a unique synthesis of micrometeorology and ecology in its widest sense. * Deals quantitatively with the impact of weather on living systems but also with the interactions between them that are a central feature of life on earth * Includes an up-to-date bibliography and review of recent micrometeorological applications in forestry, ecology, hydrology and agriculture * Includes numerical problems and worked examples

Author : Roberto Gomes da Silva,Alex Sandro Campos Maia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789400757332

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Principles of Animal Biometeorology by Roberto Gomes da Silva,Alex Sandro Campos Maia Pdf

The book begins by describing in detail the mechanisms of energy exchange – radiative, convective, conductive and evaporative – together with techniques for their determination. The discussion extends to the importance of CO2, ozone and methane, together with that of aerosol pollutants and the evolution of atmospheric CO2. Subsequent chapters apply the results of the biophysical methods to mammals, birds and aquatic animals. Discussion includes problems of shelter and shade for animals in tropical environments and techniques for the thermal evaluation for shelters and for several tree types. The details of heat exchange between animals and the environment are presented, in separate chapters covering Mammals and Birds and Aquatic Mammals. A chapter on Shade and Shelter describes the importance of shade for animals, factors of shade efficiency, the protections offered by shelter and methods of calculating the protection afforded by both shade and shelter. A Special Methods chapter offers a variety of techniques for evaluating cutaneous and respiratory evaporation, and practical methods for sampling of hairs and the evaluation of hair coat characteristics.

Author : Jan Szargut
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781853127533

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Exergy Method by Jan Szargut Pdf

The exergy method makes it possible to detect and quantify the possibilities of improving thermal and chemical processes and systems. The introduction of the concept thermo-ecological cost (cumulative consumption of non-renewable natural exergy resources) generated large application possibilities of exergy in ecology. This book contains a short presentation on the basic principles of exergy analysis and discusses new achievements in the field over the last 15 years. One of the most important issues considered by the distinguished author is the economy of non-renewable natural exergy. Previously discussed only in scientific journals, other important new problems highlighted include: calculation of the chemical exergy of all the stable chemical elements, global natural and anthropogenic exergy losses, practical guidelines for improvement of the thermodynamic imperfection of thermal processes and systems, development of the determination methods of partial exergy losses in thermal systems, evaluation of the natural mineral capital of the Earth, and the application of exergy for the determination of a pro-ecological tax.A basic knowledge of thermodynamics is assumed, and the book is therefore most appropriate for graduate students and engineers working in the field of energy and ecological management.