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Water Balance in Land Arthropods (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
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Water Balance in Land Arthropods (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
Series: Zoophysiology, 9
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Writers on arthropod water relationships range from bio physicists
and biochemists to population ecologists-a fact that gives cause to
wonder whether the field is already too heterogeneous to be written
about in a single book by a single author. I have partly avoided
the problem by concentrating largely on physiological mechanisms
and by omitting most aspects of behavioural regulation and most
aspects of heat balance and body temperature, except when these
impinge directly on water balance. Even within this limited field
there has been a lot of work during the past twenty years, as a
result of which some problems have been solved (or at least more
clearly defined), and many others have been opened up. On the whole
there has been a welcome change to a more rigorous experimental
approach and it is now possible for water balance people to state
their problems in physiological terms. Good progress has been made
towards understanding the mechanisms involved in nearly all avenues
of water uptake and loss, although problems indeed remain. The
cuticle has yielded part of its secrets to electron micrography,
but ex ploration by means oflipid biochemistry among other
techniques is necessary for a real understanding of cuticle
permeability."
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