The book series Adaptations of Desert Organisms covers the different strategies of plants and animals for coping with the harsh conditions in arid or semi-arid environments. It deals with behavioural, anatomical, morphological and physiological adaptations to heat and lack of water. All volumes are ...
摘要: During the life cycle of ephemeral desert plants, the storage of seeds in long-lasting aerial or soil seed banks is an important stage among a number of complementary sets of survival adaptations and strategies (Chaps. 1–5).出版时间: 2002/01/01 ...
This is followed by the rotation of the head around the head joint to compress the substrate. Others, like the California legless lizards (Anniella), literally “swim” through the sand. Many modifications of the toes occur in lizards. Some desert geckos, the iguanid Uma, and the lacertid ...
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xylostella (Yponomeutoidea) was separated from other moth taxa (Noctuoidea, Geometroidea and Bombycoidea). H. cunea was shown to be most closely related to H. armigera, which also belongs to the superfamily Noctuoidea. These results are in agreement with those obtained from the ...
The bugs drown in the water and their bodies eventually dissolve with some help from digestive enzymes secreted by the plant cells. The pitcher plants shown in the illustration above are the kind you find growing in the warm, humid parts of the American continents. A very different type of ...
The evolution of the amniotic egg—complete with membrane and shell—was key to vertebrates leaving the oceans and colonizing the land and air. Now, 360 million years later, bird eggs come in all shapes and sizes, from the almost perfectly spherical eggs
A description of the structural and functional adaptations of the key organs such as skin, kidneys, bladder, lungs and ovaries, with special emphasis placed on physiological adaptations: water, electrolyte, nitrogen, and thermal balance and their endocrine control. One whole chapter devoted to ...
Adaptations of desert organisms: Physiological ecology of North American desert plantsChandler, J. W.PLANT SCIENCE -LIMERICK-Smith SD, Monson RK, Anderson JE: Physiological Ecology of North American Desert plants. New York: Springer; 1997.
Chytrid tolerance to more extreme pH ranges has been further shown in vitro [131], but this tolerance is species specific and does not account for the influence of other soil factors. For example, chytrid populations have been observed to have a positive correlation with soil factors, including...