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Readers will learn about the important concept of adaptation through detailed descriptions of great white sharks’ camouflage, giraffes’ extremely long tongue, and more. Brightly colored, up-close photographs of these remarkable animals will engage readers as they learn all about how animals have come to survive in the wild. Sidebars and fact boxes add even more exciting information readers will love to share.
Readers will learn about the important concept of adaptation through detailed descriptions of great white sharks’ camouflage, giraffes’ extremely long tongue, and more. Brightly colored, up-close photographs of these remarkable animals will engage readers as they learn all about how animals have come to survive in the wild. Sidebars and fact boxes add even more exciting information readers will love to share.
This series is an introduction to key scientific principles and processes. This volume introduces the reader to the ways in which living things adapt to survive life on Earth.
This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all about adaptation through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.
Frost Survival of Plants by Akira Sakai,Walter Larcher Pdf
Low temperature represents, together with drought and salt stress, one of the most important environmental constraints limiting the pro ductivity and the distribution of plants on the Earth. Winter survival, in particular, is a highly complex phenomenon, with regards to both stress factors and stress responses. The danger from winter cold is the result not only of its primary effect, i. e. the formation of ice in plant tissues; additional threats are presented by the freezing of water in and on the ground and by the load and duration ofthe snow cover. In recent years, a number of books and reviews on the subject of chilling and frost resistance in plants have appeared: all of these publications, however, concentrate principally on the mechanisms of injury and resistance to freezing at the cellular or molecular level. We are convinced that analysis of the ultrastructural and biochemical alterations in the cell and particularly in the plasma membrane during freezing is the key to understanding the limits of frost resistance and the mechanisms of cold acclimation. This is undoubtedly the immediate task facing those of us engaged in resistance research. It is nevertheless our opinion that, in addition to understanding the basic physiological events, we should be careful not to overlook the importance of the comparative aspects of the freezing processes, the components of stress avoidance and tolerance and the specific levels of resistance.
Why do tigers have stripes? Do they choose to have them, or is that just how they are? Adaptation and Survival explains what is meant by the fitness of an organism and shows how adaptations improve a plant or animal's chances of survival to have offspring. It tackles common confusions about the science and shows how topics are relevant to the reader.
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view that we can barely imagine a way out beyond substituting a new portmanteau of material things for the one we have today. In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate. The time has come to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point.
Like ninja warriors, many plants rely on deceit, camouflage, sneak attacks, and other irregular techniques to survive. Peel-away bark. Poisonous sap. Smelly odors and distasteful leaves. These and other adaptive features have helped plants adapt to their environments and survive. This visually appealing title walks readers through basic concepts of evolution, life cycles, adaptation, survival, interdependence in ecosystems, resilience, and other biological features of the plant kingdom.
Readers will learn about the important concept of adaptation through detailed descriptions of great white sharks’ camouflage, giraffes’ extremely long tongue, and more. Brightly colored, up-close photographs of these remarkable animals will engage readers as they learn all about how animals have come to survive in the wild. Sidebars and fact boxes add even more exciting information readers will love to share.
Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants by Yitzchak Gutterman Pdf
Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies as ecological equivalents with physiological, morphological and anatomical resemblances, in the various stages of their life cycles. After 40 years of research in hot deserts Yitzchak Gutterman provides a comprehensive treatise of such adaptations and strategies. In doing so he covers the following topics: post-maturation primary seed dormancy, which prevents germination of maturing seeds before the summer; seed dispersal mechanisms with escape or protection strategies; cautious or opportunistic germination strategies; seedling drought tolerance. The day-length is an important factor in regulating flowering as well as the phenotypic plasticity of seed germination which is also affected by maternal factors.
