ecological and evolutionary physiology aims and en niche

Ecological and evolutionary physiologyaims and en niche

physiology: how do organisms function? how do organs and tissues work and interact?

Ecological and evolutionary physiologyaims and niche

ecological physiology:eco-physiology, environmental physiology

how do organisms cope with environmental challenges?

evolutionary physiology:

• which mechanisms promote/constrain the evolution of physiological diversity?

• how has physiological diversity developed historically?

Ecological and evolutionary physiologyhistory

physiology


Claudius Galenus (129-200)


Isagoge Johannitii in Tegni Galeni<Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-'Ibadi (809?-873)


Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)

De humani corporis fabrica


Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)


Matthias Schleiden(1804-1881)

Theodor Schwann(1810-1882)


Claude Bernard(1813-1878)

"La fixité du milieu intérieur est la condition d'une vie libre et indépendante".


Claude Bernard(1813-1878)

"the science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen".


Walter B. Cannon(1871-1945)

The wisdom of the body


physiology

comparative physiology


George Cuvier(1769-1832)


Richard Owen(1804-1892)


William Henry Flower (1831-1891)

“I happen to have in my pocket a monkey's brain”


physiology


ecological physiology



Melophorus bagoti

Tb: 54°CTs: 56 to >70°C

Alvinella pompejana


Scaphiopus


Eurosta solidaginis


Rana sylvatica


Per Scholander(1905-1980)


George A. Bartholomew(1919-2006)


Knut Schmidt-Nielsen(1915-2007)


physiology



evolutionary physiology

evolutionary biology


Sewall Wright (1889-1988)


Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975)

physiological genetics

genesgenes designdesign



Richard Goldschmidt (1878-1958)

physiology






August Krogh (1874-1949)

“For every problem there is an animal on which it can be most conveniently studied.”



Architeuthis



Aplysia



Dipodomys Neotoma


physiology




evolutiebiologie


Ward B. Watt

Colias philodice

pgm=phosphoglucomutase; g6pd= glucose-6-phosphatedehydrogenase


physiology






Robert T. Bakker

Deinonychus


Deinonychus

ontogenyhistologyO2-isotopesecologybiomechanicsbiogeography


Stephen J. Gould(1941-2002)

Richard Lewontin (°1929)


Gould S.J. & Lewontin R. 1979.The spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm:a critique of the adaptationist program.Proc. R. Soc. London B 205: 581-598.


Steve J. Arnold

Arnold S.J. 1983. Morphology, performance and fitness. Am. Zool. 23: 347-361.


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‘ecologically relevant functions’Huey & Kingsolver 1989

Evolution of thermal sensitivity of ectotherm performance.

Trends Ecol. Evol. 4: 131-135.


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