LEADER 04643nam 22007455 450 001 9910746100103321 005 20251008133658.0 010 $a9783031351808 010 $a3031351800 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-35180-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30742320 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30742320 035 $a(OCoLC)1397575065 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-35180-8 035 $a(PPN)272738034 035 $a(CKB)28223002900041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928223002900041 100 $a20230913d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCurrent Perspectives on the Functional Design of the Avian Respiratory System /$fby John N. Maina 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (391 pages) 225 1 $aZoological Monographs,$x2523-3912 ;$v8 311 08$aPrint version: Maina, John N. Current Perspectives on the Functional Design of the Avian Respiratory System Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031351792 327 $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. 330 $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. 410 0$aZoological Monographs,$x2523-3912 ;$v8 606 $aZoology 606 $aPhysiology 606 $aBiomechanics 606 $aVertebrates 606 $aRespiratory organs 606 $aBiophysics 606 $aZoology 606 $aAnimal Physiology 606 $aBiomechanics 606 $aVertebrate Zoology 606 $aRespiratory Physiology 606 $aBiophysics 615 0$aZoology. 615 0$aPhysiology. 615 0$aBiomechanics. 615 0$aVertebrates. 615 0$aRespiratory organs. 615 0$aBiophysics. 615 14$aZoology. 615 24$aAnimal Physiology. 615 24$aBiomechanics. 615 24$aVertebrate Zoology. 615 24$aRespiratory Physiology. 615 24$aBiophysics. 676 $a590 700 $aMaina$b J. N$01859341 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910746100103321 996 $aCurrent Perspectives on the Functional Design of the Avian Respiratory System$94463047 997 $aUNINA