Thermal Adaptation:
A Theoretical and
Empirical Synthesis
2009 Marsh Book of the Year
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This book is broad in
scope and far-reaching in its implications; every
forward-thinking ecologist with some theoretical aptitude should
consider what it offers.
—Stephens 2009 (Bull. British Ecol. Soc.)
Michael Angilletta's book
is a delightful read and provides an interesting and detailed
account of current knowledge in thermal biology. Students and
researchers alike will find the volume useful and interesting
and it should be an important, if not indispensable,
introductory volume and reference for years to come.
—Pörtner 2010 (Integrative and Comparative
Biology)
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Available
for purchase
from
Oxford University
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Angilletta draws upon both classical work and the latest
research to successfully provide a one-stop shop for everything
from descriptive studies to selection experiments, game theory,
optimality modeling, and quantitative genetics. It is the
concise, balanced, and seemingly effortless manner in which this
is achieved that makes this rather slim volume appealing.
—Berger & Walters 2009 (Quarterly Review
of Biology)
Angilletta states in the Preface that he
wanted to write a book that provides thermal biologists with a
synthesis of theory and a guide to research in the coming
decade, and which provides evolutionary biologists with an
evaluation of current models of evolution in variable
environments...this impressive, cogently argued, well-researched
synthesis achieves these aims.
—Atkinson 2009 (Trends in Ecology &
Evolution)
This compact but nonetheless dense and
thorough book will be an inspiration and reference for the
specialist and the newcomer alike.
—Walters & Berger 2009 (Evolution)
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