Living in a Seasonal World Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations [Paperback]

This book summarises the newest information on seasonal adaptation in animals. Topics include animal hibernation, daily torpor, thermoregulation, heat production, metabolic depression, biochemical adaptations, neurophysiology and energy balance. The contributors to this book present interdisciplinary research at multiple levels ranging from the molecular to the ecophysiological, as well as evolutionary approaches. The chapters of this book provide original data not published elsewhere, which makes it the most up-to-date, comprehensive source of information on these fields.

The books subchapters correspond to presentations given at the 14th International Hibernation Symposium in August 2012 in Austria. This is a very successful series of symposia (held every four years since 1959) that attracts leading researchers in the field. Like the past symposia, this meeting  and consequently the book  is aimed not only at hibernation but at covering the full range of animal adaptations to seasonal environments. For the next four years, this book will serve as the cutting-edge reference work for graduate students and scientists active in this field of physiology and ecology.

A single origin of heterothermy in mammals. - Afrotropical heterothermy: a continuum of possibilities. -Tropical heterothermy - does the exception prove the rule or force a re-definition? Hibernation in free-ranging African woodland dormice, Graphiurus murinus.- Evolutionary ecology of mammalian hibernation phenology.- Inter-relationships among timing of hibernation, reproduction, and warming soil in free-living female arctic ground squirrel.- Assessing the effect of climate change on hibernating mammals using computer intensive methods.- Impact of climatic variation on the hibernation physiology of Muscardinus avellanarius.- Comparison of variables of torpor between populations of a hibernating subtropical/tropical bat at different latitudes.- The Other FunlÓv