Papers From The Tortugas Laboratory Of The Carnegie Institution Of Washington

Author : Carnegie Institution Of Washington
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267890767
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Papers From the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) written by Carnegie Institution Of Washington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Papers From the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914, Vol. 6 As was shown by Harvey the rate of nerve-conduction in the subumbrella tissue of Cassiopea varies as the increment of temperature, increasing in a linear ratio as the temperature is raised. Experiments conducted at the Murray Islands, Australian Great Bar rier Reef, show that those corals which die at temperatures below are killed by being buried 11 hours under the mud, -but those which resist and above, are proportionally less sensitive to the smothering effects of mud and may survive being buried for 30 to 40 hours. This suggests that high temperature produces death by causing asphyxiation, the oxygen of the sea-water being insufficient to sustain the increased metabolic activity of the animal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.