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The past 20 years have witnessed an explosion of new directions and perspectives in ecophysiology. These developments had, and continue to have, a profound influence on our understanding of animal and plant physiology, their life history, and how they match environmental constraints. What is ecophysiology? Depending upon the views of researchers and the diversity of their study areas, it may also be called physiological ecology, ecological physiology, environmental physiology, or even evolutionary physiology. These different names simply reflect the different approaches, whether one tries to understand how an animal has adapted to its environment, or how variations in physiology may affect the distribution of animals and plants in space and time. The approaches are not fundamentally different, since they all try to understand the mechanisms underlying distribution and fitness in animals and plants.
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Heldmaier, G., Werner, D. (2003). Environmental Signal Processing and Adaptation. In: Heldmaier, G., Werner, D. (eds) Environmental Signal Processing and Adaptation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56096-5_1
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