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  title info:
    title: Principles of Animal Biometeorology
  name:
    name part: Gomes da Silva, Roberto.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Campos Maia, Alex Sandro.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 264 p. online resource.
  abstract: Principles of Animal Biometeorology presents a thorough examination of the atmospheric environment in which animals live, and an equally comprehensive account of the processes of thermal energy exchanges between organisms and environment, with particular focus on tropical climates. 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. The text is further illuminated by numerous relevant tables, diagrams and mathematical formulae.
  table of contents: Contents -- 1. The Environment -- 2. Basic Physical Mechanisms -- 3. Thermal Balance and Thermoregulation -- 4. Heat Exchange Between Animals and Environment: Mammals and Birds -- 5. Heat Exchange Between Animals and Environment: Aquatic Mammals -- 6. Shade and Shelter -- 7. Thermal Stress Indexes -- 8. Special Methods -- Index.
  note: by Roberto Gomes da Silva, Alex Sandro Campos Maia.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Animal physiology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Animal Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Physics
  classification: QH75-77
  classification: 333.72
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Biometeorology ; 2
  identifier: 9789400757332
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5733-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 121116
    record change date: 20151031081024.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-5733-2