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Effects of Temperature on Ectothermic Organisms

Ecological Implications and Mechanisms of Compensation

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  • © 1973

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang Wieser

    1. Institut für Zoophysiologie der Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Mechanisms

    1. Temperature Relations of Ectotherms: A Speculative Review

      • Wolfgang Wieser
      Pages 1-23

    2. Temperature Acclimation and Adaptive Changes in the Nervous System

      • Kari Y. H. Lagerspetz
      Pages 25-34

    3. Neural Control of Temperature Adaptation in Rana temporaria

      • Mikko N. E. Harri
      Pages 35-43

    4. The Influence of Temperature on Membrane Processes

      • Christian Winter
      Pages 45-53

    5. The Regulation of Cellular Function by Temperature-induced Alterations in Membrane Composition

      • Jeffrey R. Hazel
      Pages 55-67

    6. Basic Strategies and Mechanisms of Enzyme Adaptation to Temperature

      • P. W. Hochachka
      Pages 69-81

    7. Acute Temperature Change and the Oxidation Rates of Ectotherm Mitochondria

      • Veronica Pye
      Pages 83-95

    8. Effects of Acclimation Temperature on Aerobic Energy Production in Eel Liver: Oxidative Phosphorylation in Isolated Mitochondria

      • Ekkehart Wodtke
      Pages 97-105

    9. Temperature-compensated Oxygen Consumption of Subcellular Preparations from Vertebrate Ectotherm, Endotherm, and Tumor Tissues

      • Leland G. Johnson, Richard C. Newell
      Pages 107-121

    10. Molecular Mechanisms of Temperature Adaptation in Arctic Ectotherms and Heterotherms

      • Hans W. Behrisch
      Pages 123-137

    11. Mechanisms of Insect Thermoregulation

      • Bernd Heinrich
      Pages 139-150

  3. Ecology

    1. Environmental Factors Affecting the Acclimatory Responses of Ectotherms

      • R. C. Newell
      Pages 151-164

    2. The Influence of Starvation on Temperature Relationships of Metabolism in Ectotherms

      • Islay D. Marsden
      Pages 165-172

    3. Effect of Temperature on Active and Resting Metabolism in Polychaetes

      • P. E. Coyer, C. P. Mangum
      Pages 173-180

    4. Some Effects of Temperature and Food on the Rate of Oxygen Consumption by Mytilus edulis L

      • B. L. Bayne, R. J. Thompson, J. Widdows
      Pages 181-193

    5. Temperature-dependent Storage Processes in Crayfish and Spiders

      • Klaus-G. Collatz
      Pages 195-199

    6. Effects of Temperature on the Distribution of Turbellarian Triclads

      • E. Pattee, C. Lascombe, R. Delolme
      Pages 201-207

    7. The Measurement of the Efficiency of Growth at Different Temperatures and Its Significance

      • J. N. R. Grainger
      Pages 209-215

    8. Life Table Data and Population Dynamics of the Rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus Pallas as Influenced by Periodically Oscillating Temperature

      • Udo Halbach
      Pages 217-228
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The study of thermoregulation in endotherms has contributed much to the emergence of the concept of control theory in biology. By the same token, the study of tempera­ ture adjustment in ectotherms is likely to have a far-reaching influence on ideas on the regulation of metabolism in general. The reason for this is that ectotherms, in adapting to the vagaries of a thermally unstable environment, deploy a range of subtle molecular and organismic strategies. Thus the experimenter, using temperature changes as a tool, is well equipped to analyze some of these strategies. This approach has enabled some important mechanisms of temperature-induced adaptation to be elucidated; the most striking of these are the effects on metabolism of changes in the conformation of enzymes and the transfer properties of membranes. Furthermore, there is a vague but persistent feeling among those working in this field that changes in the nervous system will ultimately prove to be the agency by which many of the molecular mechanisms of temperature adaptation are controlled. Should this indeed be the case, a new phase would soon begin in our understanding of the interactions between the systemic and the cellular levels of organization. However, it is not only questions about the causes of temperature adaptation that can provide answers of potential importance to the general biologist; of equal significance are questions as to the meaning of temperature adaptation in a particular organism.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Zoophysiologie der Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Wolfgang Wieser

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Effects of Temperature on Ectothermic Organisms

  • Book Subtitle: Ecological Implications and Mechanisms of Compensation

  • Editors: Wolfgang Wieser

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65703-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1973

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-65705-4Published: 10 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-65703-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 300

  • Topics: Ecology, Biomedicine general

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