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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Thermal physiology"”.
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Thermal physiology of selected African ungulates with emphasis on the physical properties of the pelage
… A great deal of information concerning the physiology of thermoregulation in domestic ungulates is available but relatively little is known about thermoregulation in wild ungulate species. Moreover, in the past, thermoregulation studies were conducted mainly in climatic chambers and …
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Ecological consequences of genetically-based thermal traits in fishes
… persistence dependent on resiliency in thermal physiology and thermoregulation. The association between thermal physiology and behavioural traits can predict population persistence, range shifts, and evolution in the face of contemporary climate change, but the mechanisms underlying …
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Genomic and physiological adaptation to temperature in the invasive golden star runicate (Botryllus schlosseri)
… to study how a pernicious NIS adapts its thermal physiology on contemporary time scales. In Chapter 2, I applied low-coverage whole genome sequencing (lcWGS) to investigate patterns of population genetic structure and signatures of local adaptation to temperature. In addition to …
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Genomic and physiological adaptation to temperature in the invasive golden star tunicate (Botryllus schlosseri)
… to study how a pernicious NIS adapts its thermal physiology on contemporary time scales. In Chapter 2, I applied low-coverage whole genome sequencing (lcWGS) to investigate patterns of population genetic structure and signatures of local adaptation to temperature. In addition to …
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Specific bio-modeling and analysis techniques at cellular and systems level
… models at the systems level. Specifically, thermal physiology models of the entire human body are developed using statistical and black box (artificial neural network, ANN) techniques.The MU 2-D Man, a human thermal model has been developed for designing an automatic thermal comfort control …
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The influence of spatiotemporal variation in ambient temperature on the ecology and physiology of birds
… temperature has profound effects on the ecology, physiology and distribution of organisms. Ambient temperature regimes vary across spatial and temporal scales and understanding how organisms cope with this variation is a primary goal of ecological and evolutionary physiology. An emerging framework …
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Phenotypic Responses to Invasion in the Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei)
… that enable the invader to persist under novel thermal regimes. In this dissertation, I examine phenotypic changes in a tropical lizard that has successful invaded a cooler temperate climate, specifically examining traits that may promote survival and reproduction in their new range. First, I …