The Hot-Blooded Insects : Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation / Bernd Heinrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heinrich, Bernd, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body temperature--Regulation.

Body temperature.

Insekten.

Tiere (Zoologie).

Insects--Behavior.

Insects--Physiology.

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.

Local Subjects:

Body temperature--Regulation.

Insects--Behavior.

Insects--Physiology.

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"From one man's persistent and elegant probing of the temperature biology of bees, we have been led to a deeper understanding of the whole biology of many insect taxa, and of their interactions with ecological and environmental stresses: all who work at the interfaces of physiology, ecology and behaviour have cause to be grateful, and all should certainly read this book." (Trends in Ecology & Evolution) "An outstanding source of information, and can be read with profit and satisfaction by the professional biologist and interested amateur alike." (Nature)

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

ONE. Night-Flying Moths

TWO. Butterflies and Wings

THREE. Dragonflies Now and Then

FOUR. Grasshoppers and Other Orthoptera

FIVE. Beetles Large and Small

SIX. Bumblebees out in the Cold

SEVEN. Tropical Bees

EIGHT. Hot-Headed Honeybees

NINE. The Tolerance of Ants

TEN. Wasps and the Heat of Battle

ELEVEN. Flies of All Kinds

TWELVE. Sweating Cicadas

THIRTEEN. Warm Caterpillars and Hot Maggots

FOURTEEN. Fever

FIFTEEN. Cold Jumpers

SIXTEEN. Social Thermoregulation

Summary

References

Acknowledgments

Index of Authors Cited

General Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-41851-4

OCLC:

1013955402