| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-287) and index. |
| Contents |
Two ways to move material -- The bioballistics of small projectiles -- Getting up to speed -- Moving heat around -- Maintaining temperature -- Gravity and life in the air -- Gravity and life on the ground -- Gravity and life in water -- Making and maintaining liquid water -- Pumping fluids through conduits -- To twist or bend when stressed -- Keeping up upward and down downward. |
| Summary |
Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds offers an eye-opening look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants. These characteristics impose limits but also create remarkable and subtle opportunities for the functional biology of organisms. In particular, Steven Vogel examines the size and scale, and trade-offs among different physical processes. He pays attention to how the forms and activities of animals and plants reflect the materials available to nature, and he explores the unique constraints and possibilities provided by fluid flow, s. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biophysics.
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Biophysics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vogel, Steven, 1940- Glimpses of creatures in their physical worlds. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009 9780691138060 (DLC) 2008049338 (OCoLC)276712899 |
| ISBN |
9781400833863 (electronic book) |
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1400833868 (electronic book) |
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9780691138060 |
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0691138060 |
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9780691138077 |
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0691138079 |
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