Time Tide And The Living Clocks Of Marine Organisms
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Time Tide And The Living Clocks Of Marine Organisms
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Author : J. D. Palmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Time Tide And The Living Clocks Of Marine Organisms written by J. D. Palmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biological rhythms categories.
The Biological Rhythms And Clocks Of Intertidal Animals
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Author : John D. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1995
The Biological Rhythms And Clocks Of Intertidal Animals written by John D. Palmer and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Biochemical mechanisms within the bodies of plants and animals program almost all their activities to specific phases of periodic events such as the time of day, the state of the tide, and the season of the year. Those organisms living within the intertidal zone--the area between high and low tides--face many environmental challenges that are eased tremendously by such chronobiological means. This monograph provides an authoritative, up-to-date account of research on the workings of intertidal animals' biological clocks. The book begins with a description of how tides are generated, and how the difficulties involved in studying organismic tide-associated rhythms may be overcome. The rest of the work focuses on rhythms and their properties, and the nature of the clocks that govern them. Comprehensive in scope, the book synthesizes over 350 research papers and contains over 129 figures. It is intended as a sequel to the author's well-known 1974 monograph Biological Clocks in Marine Organisms, incorporating the many advances in the field since the publication of the earlier volume. Aquatic ecologists, animal behaviorists, comparative physiologists, marine biologists, chronobiologists, and interested general readers will all want to read this important new work.
Chronobiology Of Marine Organisms
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Author : Ernest Naylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Chronobiology Of Marine Organisms written by Ernest Naylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Chronobiology categories.
Describes biological rhythms and clocks evolved by marine organisms in relation to tidal, daily, lunar and seasonal life cycle events.
The Living Clock
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Author : John D. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-03-14
The Living Clock written by John D. Palmer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-14 with Science categories.
From one-celled paramecium to giant blue whales, we all have internal clocks that regulate the rhythms we live by. In The Living Clock, John Palmer, one of the world's leading authorities on these rhythms, takes us on a tour of this broad and multifaceted subject, examining everything from glowing fruit flies to the best cures for jet lag. Palmer has a wonderful sense of humor and an eye for the startling fact. We learn that fiddler crabs--in a lab where there are no time nor tide cues--remain active when low tide would occur and motionless during high tide, the same pattern they follow in their natural habitat. (In fact, you can remove a crab's leg and the leg will keep a tidal rhythm as long as it's kept alive.) Moreover, humans are subject to more than one hundred biological rhythms. Mental acuity peaks in the afternoon, for instance, and our blood pressure peaks at seven in the morning (when most heart attacks occur). The time of day you take medication can affect how well it works. And Palmer shows that when our clocks are thrown off kilter, trouble follows, especially for rotating shift workers--the Bhopal spill, the Chernobyl reactor explosion, and the Three Mile Island accident all happened when new crews began early-hour shifts. No one has discovered exactly how our internal clocks work--Palmer says a Nobel Prize awaits that lucky scientist--but they are no less fascinating for their inexplicable nature. Frequently amusing and always eye-opening, The Living Clock is a treat for everyone curious about the nature of life as well as anyone planning a long jet flight.
Tides
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Author : Jonathan White
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-16
Tides written by Jonathan White and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-16 with Nature categories.
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture—the very old and very new. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion. Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and sixteen color photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the tides.
An Introduction To Tides
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Author : Theo Gerkema
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-20
An Introduction To Tides written by Theo Gerkema and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-20 with Science categories.
A self-contained introduction to tides, explaining the origin of tidal constituents and their wave propagation in oceans and coastal seas.
Chronobiology Of Marine Organisms
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Author : Ernest Naylor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-04
Chronobiology Of Marine Organisms written by Ernest Naylor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-04 with Medical categories.
Do intertidal organisms simply respond to the rise and fall of tides, or do they possess biological timing and navigation mechanisms that allow them to anticipate when conditions are most favourable? How are the patterns of growth, development and reproduction of some marine plants and animals related to changes in day-length or to phases of the moon? The author describes how marine organisms, from single cells to vertebrates, on sea shores, in estuaries and in the open ocean, have evolved inbuilt biological clockwork and synchronisation mechanisms which control rhythmic processes and navigational behaviour, permitting successful exploitation of highly variable and often hostile environments. Adopting a hypothesis-testing and experimental approach, the book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students of marine biology, marine ecology, animal behaviour, oceanography and other biological sciences and also as an introduction for researchers, including physiologists, biochemists and molecular biologists entering the field of chronobiology.
Celestial Delights
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Author : Francis Reddy
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-11-12
Celestial Delights written by Francis Reddy and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-12 with Science categories.
Celestial Delights is essentially a 'TV Guide' for teh sky. This will be its third edition. This title, which has aggregated sales of about 20,000 copies to date in its two previous editions and has found a niche with skygazers, is much awaited. Through extensive graphics integrated with an eight-year-long calendar of sky events, it provides a look at "don't miss" sky events, mostly for naked-eye and binocular observing. The book is organized by ease of observation - lunar phases and the brighter planets come first, while solar eclipses, the aurora, and comets come later. Celestial Delights also includes a hefty dose of sky lore, astronomical history, and clear overviews of current science. It provides a handy reference to upcoming naked-eye events, with information broken out in clear and simple diagrams and tables that are cross-referenced against a detailed almanac for each year covered. Most broad-ranging astronomy field guides focus on stars, constellations, and the deep sky, but tend to ignore planetary events, which are in by far the most widely observable aspects of the changing night sky. Celestial Delights puts a variety of information all in one place, presents it in a friendly way that does not require prior in-depth astronomical knowledge, but provides the context and historical background for understanding events that astronomical computer programs or web sites lack.
Time In The Living World
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Author : M. K. Chandrashekaran
language : en
Publisher: Universities Press
Release Date : 2005
Time In The Living World written by M. K. Chandrashekaran and has been published by Universities Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Science categories.
Encyclopedia Of Time
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Author : Samuel L. Macey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-11
Encyclopedia Of Time written by Samuel L. Macey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-11 with Business & Economics categories.
In this encyclopedia, some 200 international scholars in 360 articles explore subjects such as physics, archeostronomy, astronomy, mathematics, time's measurements and divisions, as well as covering other scientific and interdisciplinary areas: biology, economics and political science, horology, history, medicine, geography, geology and telecommunications.