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Perspectives on Life and Respiration: How, When, and Wherefore
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998)
Humankind has always been fascinated by the spectacle of extreme states and phenomena. The Guinness Book of Records, which after the Holy Bible is alleged to be the second most widely read book, is according to the publishers ...
Gas Exchange Media, Respiratory States, and Environments
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998)
Regarding the part of the biosphere they occupy, animal life is classified into aquatic, terrestrial, and aerial groups. Among vertebrates, fish are predominantly aquatic, amphibians are transitional, and reptiles, birds, ...
Air Breathing: the Elite Respiration
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998)
Water forms an important structural and functional constituent of the intercellular and intracelular lung tissue (e.g., Bastacky et al. 1987). Furthermore, a hydrated layer lines the air spaces of the lung (e.g., Fishman ...
Bimodal Breathing: Compromise Respiration
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998)
The division of the Animal Kingdom into aquatic and terrestrial life is ancient: it is still relevant to contemporary life. This distinction is ascribed to the different structural and functional attributes which have been ...
Water Breathing: the Inaugural Respiratory Process
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998)
By way of the hydrologic cycle, water on Earth is believed to have remained unchanged in amount and character for about 3000 million of years (Leopold and Davis 1968). From the current concepts of paleobiology, it is ...
Essence of the Designs of Gas Exchangers — the Imperative Concepts
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998)
Gas exchangers have developed and tractably adapted with the respiratory requirements of whole organisms in different states and habitats. The environmental factors that have profoundly influenced the general phenotype ...