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Basel, Boston & Berlin: Birkhauser, 1997. Illustrated with charts, octavo, pp xviii, 325, very clean internally, pictorial boards, virtually as new, a splendid copy. SCARCE. ["Most organisms and populations have to cope with hostile environments, threatening their existence. Their ability to respond phenotypically and genetically to these challenges and to evolve adaptive mechanisms is, therefore, crucial. The contributions to this book aim at understanding, from a evolutionary perspective, the impact of stress on biological systems. Scientists, applying different approaches spanning from the molecular and the protein level to individuals, populations and ecosystems, explore how organisms adapt to extreme environments, how stress changes genetic structure and affects life histories, how organisms cope with thermal stress through acclimation, and how environmental and genetic stress induce fluctuating asymmetry, shape selection pressure and cause extinction of populations. Finally, it…
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Environmental Stress, Adaptation and Evolution Hardcover - 1997 - 1997th Edition
by K. Bijlsma (Editor); Volker Loeschcke (Editor)
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There are many areas of the world that are contaminated to a greater or lesser extent by metals or metalloids, either naturally or as a result of the activities of humans.
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- Title Environmental Stress, Adaptation and Evolution
- Author K. Bijlsma (Editor); Volker Loeschcke (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1997th
- Edition 1997
- Pages 326
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Birkhauser
- Date 1997-09-23
- ISBN 9783764356958 / 3764356952
- Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.06 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97022248
- Dewey Decimal Code 570
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