The maintenance of a stable acid-base status within biological tissue is a fundamental homeostatic process in all organisms, necessary to preserve the metabolic function of proteins and other macromolecules. The study of acid-base regulation has advanced enormously over recent decades due to the development of increasingly accurate and sensitive techniques for measuring acid-base variables. This volume brings together contributions from leading comparative physiologists working on factors affecting the acid-base status of the internal fluids of animals and plants. The result is a...

Presents information about how animals have adapted to cope with life in freezing water.

A thorough synthesis of current knowledge about the ways canopies grow, develop, and function. Only recently have advances in simulation modeling in plants begun to emphasize the structural and functional properties of plant canopies in addition to those of the individual constituent leaves. The book considers these properties in terms of the processes--such as transpiration and photosynthesis--by which the canopy and its aerial environment interact. Topics discussed include the meaning of canopy structure, interception of solar radiation, exchange processes, nitrogen nutrition, leaf...

The texture of food and the feeding adaptions of various animals are investigated with the intention of enabling the food industry to produce more appetising foodstuffs.

This volume provides a review of the most important areas of the biochemistry of herbicide action.

This volume identifies how stressful conditions affect plants.

A comprehensive treatment of the environmental physiology and ecology of fruit and seed production in higher plants.

Molecular aspects of flower morphogenesis for researchers and students from SEB Seminar. The book will appeal to students and researchers in floral physiology.

Biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology of amino acids for botany researchers.

A very topical volume given the concern about global climate change.