The thermal warriors : strategies of insect survival
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The thermal warriors : strategies of insect survival
Harvard University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index
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内容説明
All bodily activity is the result of the interplay of vastly complex physiological processes, and all of these processes depend on temperature. For insects, the struggle to keep body temperature within a suitable range for activity and competition is often a matter of life and death. A few studies of temperature regulation in butterflies can be found dating back to the late 1800s, but only recently have scientists begun to study the phenomenon in other insects. In "The Thermal Warriors" Bernd Heinrich explains how, when and in general what insects regulate their body temperature and what it means to them. And he shows us, the ingenuity of the survival strategies insects have evolved in the irreducible crucible of temperature is astonishing: from shivering and basking, the construction of turrets (certain tiger beetles), and cooling with liquid faeces to stilting (some desert ants and beetles), "panting" in grasshoppers and "sweating cicada", and counter- and alternating-currents of blood flow for heat retention and heat loss.
目次
- From cold crawlers to hot flyers
- heat balance
- the flight motor
- warm-up by shivering
- warm-up by basking
- cooling off
- form and function
- conserving energy
- why do insects thermoregulate?
- strategies for survival
- thermal arms races
- heat treatments
- heating and cooling the nest
- insects in man-made habitats.
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