Paul Ponganis

Diving Physiology of Marine Mammals and Seabirds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An up-to-date synthesis of comparative diving physiology research, illustrating the features of dive performance and its biomedical and ecological relevance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 784g
• ISBN-13: 9780521765558
• ISBN-10: 0521765552
• Artikelnr.: 42965208

Autorenporträt

Paul Ponganis is a Research Marine Biologist and Marine Physiologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. A leading expert in the field and also an anaesthesiologist, his primary clinical interests are in cardiac anaesthesia, which he has practised for the last thirty years in conjunction with his research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His research has focused on the diving physiology of marine mammals and penguins at field sites around the world. In recognition of their Antarctic research, the Ponganis Icefall on Coulman Island was named after him and his wife.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Diving behavior
2. Challenges of the breath hold and the environment
3. Respiratory gas exchange
4. Oxygen storage and transport
5. Cardiovascular dive response
6. Adaptations in cardiovascular anatomy and hemodynamics
7. Muscle and locomotory work
8. Thermoregulation
9. Diving metabolism
10. The aerobic dive limit (ADL)
11. Pressure tolerance
12. Hypoxemic tolerance
13. Biomedical relevance
References
Index.