Functional Vertebrate Morphology / / ed. by Milton Hildebrand, David B. Wake, Karel F. Liem, Dennis M. Bramble.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, R. McNeill,; Bennett, Albert F.,; Blake, Robert W.,; Bramble, Dennis M.,; Cartmill, Matt,; Crompton, Alfred W.,; Edwards, James L.,; Emerson, Sharon B.,; Fay, Richard R.,; Goslow, Jr.,; Hiiemae, Karen M.,; Hildebrand, Milton,; Lanyon, Lance E.,; Lauder, George V.,; Levine, Joseph S.,; Liem, Karel F.,; Norberg, Ulla Μ.,; Popper, Arthur N.,; Rubin, Clinton T.,; Wake, David B.,; Webb, Paul W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bramble, Dennis M.,; Hildebrand, Milton,; Liem, Karel F.,; Wake, David B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (430 p.) :; Illustrations

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Functional Adaptation in Skeletal Structures
• Chapter 2. Body Support, Scaling, and Allometry
• Chapter 3. Walking and Running
• Chapter 4. Jumping and Leaping
• Chapter 5. Climbing
• Chapter 6. Digging of Quadrupeds
• Chapter 7. Swimming
• Chapter 8. Flying, Gliding, and Soaring
• Chapter 9. Terrestrial Locomotion without Appendages
• Chapter 10. Energetics and Locomotion
• Chapter 11. Ventilation
• Chapter 12. Aquatic Feeding in Lower Vertebrates
• Chapter 13. Feeding Mechanisms of Lower Tetrapods
• Chapter 14. Mastication, Food Transport, and Swallowing
• Chapter 15. The Octavolateralis System
• Chapter 16. The Vertebrate Eye
• Chapter 17. Neural Control of Locomotion
• Chapter 18. Morphology: Current Approaches and Concepts
• References, Acknowledgments, Contributors, Index
• References
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index