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020			_a9783031351808
024	7		_a10.1007/978-3-031-35180-8 _2doi
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050		4	_aQL698 _b2023 EB
100	1		_aMaina, J. N. _eautor _9689977
245	0	0	_aCurrent Perspectives on the Functional Design of the Avian Respiratory System _cby John N. Maina
250			_a1st ed. 2023.
264		1	_aCham _bSpringer International Publishing _c2023
300			_a1 recurso en línea
336			_atexto _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aelectrónico _bc _2rdamedia
338			_arecurso electrónico _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aZoological Monographs _x2523-3912 _v8
505	0		_aChapter 1. Fascinating Natural and Biological Traits of Birds -- Chapter 2. Development of the Avian Respiratory System -- Chapter 3. Structure of the Avian Respiratory System -- Chapter 4. Function of the Avian Respiratory System.
520			_aBirds have and continue to fascinate scientists and the general public. While the avian respiratory system has unremittingly been investigated for nearly five centuries, important aspects on its biology remain cryptic and controversial. In this book, resolving some of the contentious issues, developmental-, structural- and functional aspects of the avian lung-air sac system are particularized: it endeavors to answer following fundamental questions on the biology of birds: how, when and why did birds become what they are? Flight is a unique form of locomotion. It considerably shaped the form and the essence of birds as animals. An exceptionally efficient respiratory system capacitated birds to procure the exceptionally large quantities of oxygen needed for powered (active) flight. Among the extant air-breathing vertebrates, comprising ~11,000 species, birds are the most species-rich-, numerically abundant- and extensively distributed animal taxon. After realizing volancy, they easily overcame geographical obstacles and extensively dispersed into various ecological niches where they underwent remarkable adaptive radiation. While the external morphology of birds is inconceivably uniform for such a considerably speciose taxon, contingent on among other attributes, lifestyle, habitat and phylogenetic level of development have foremost determined the novelties that are displayed by diverse species of birds. Here, critical synthesizes of the most recent findings with the historical ones, evolution and behavior and development, structure and function of the exceptionally elaborate respiratory system of birds are detailed. The prominence of modern birds as a taxon in the Animal Kingdom is underscored. The book should appeal to researchers who are interested in evolutionary processes and how adaptive specializations correlate with biological physiognomies and exigencies, comparative biologists who focus on how various animals have solved respiratory pressures, people who study respiration in birds and other animals and ornithologists who love and enjoy birds for what they are - profoundly interesting animals.
988			_aSpringer_BiomedLife_2023
650		7	_2embne _9679719 _aPájaros
856	4	0	_uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/universidadeuropea.es?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35180-8 _zAcceso a este recurso digital (usuarios Universidad Europea de Madrid)
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