Information AboutEcophysiology |
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Ecophysiology or '''environmental physiology''' is a Biological Discipline which studies the adaptation of Organism 's Physiology to environmental conditions. It is closely related to Comparative Physiology and Evolutionary Physiology . ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS Plant ecophysiology is concerned largely with two topics: mechanisms (how plants sense and respond to environmental change) and scaling or integration (how the responses to highly variable conditions -- for example, gradients from full sunlight to 95% shade within tree canopies -- are coordinated with one another, and how their collective effect on plant growth and gas exchange can be understood on this basis. In many cases, Animal s are able to escape unfavourable and changing environmental factors such as heat, cold, drought, or floods, while generally Plant s are unable to move away and therefor must endure the adverse conditions or perish. Some plants have an impressive array of Gene s which aid in adapting to changing conditions. It is hypothesized that this large number of genes can be partly explained by plant species' need to adapt to a wider range of conditions. ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF ANIMALS George A. Bartholomew (1919-2006) was a founder of animal physiological ecology. He served on the faculty at (1915-2007) was also an important contributor to this specific scientific field as well as Comparative Physiology . FURTHER READING
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