Oxford University Press
Ecological and Environmental Physiology Series (EEPS)
Oxford University PressEcological and Environmental Physiology Series (EEPS)
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ABOUT EEPS
Why This Series? The environment is increasingly viewed as a common, unifying theme for many aspects of biology. Environmental physiology has long been a mainstay of comparative physiology, and now more students than ever are turning to the field of environmental physiology to understand the mechanistic underpinnings of ecological and ethological field observations. Yet, one only rarely finds a unified, comprehensive collection of information on ecological and environmental physiology of a specific group of organisms. A synthesis from which emerges overarching principles is lacking for many taxa. For example, assume one is interested in the ecological and environmental physiology of birds. One can consult numerous, widely dispersed and variably presented sources of information on how birds respond to environmental challenges, but what one source can one go to learn about how birds have evolved to cope with the hostile environments of the Antarctic or Chile's Atacama desert, with the thousands of miles of migration typical of many birds, or with the high altitudes presented by montane environments? Moreover, and importantly, where can one find a single source where one can also read not just a catalogue of bird's adaptations to environments, but an actual analysis identifying both the common and the unique physiological solutions to environmental challenges that have evolved in birds. The rationale for the Ecological and Environmental Physiology Series (EEPS) is therefore to provide taxon-specific treatments of ecological and environmental physiology.
Why Taxon-Based? Early in the planning of the series, we considered grouping series titles around specific environments (e.g. Environmental Physiology of Desert Animals, Environmental Physiology of Deep-Sea Animals, etc.) rather than specific taxa. Ultimately, however, we rejected this organization, favoring a broadly based taxonomic approach as the most appropriate unifying theme for this series. Our rationale is that the majority of physiologists with environmental leanings (and the majority of courses that they teach), focus more, for example, on how insect physiology varies as insects encounter different environments, rather than how insects, arachnids, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals all cope in very different ways with, for example, dehydrating conditions.
Oxford University Press and the Series Editor have appointed a Series
Advisory Board to assist in the commissioning of
titles/authors, development of volumes, and promotion of the finished products. This board comprises
about 50 internationally recognized experts in
Ecological and Environmental Physiology, providing a combination of both depth
and breadth to proposal evaluation and series oversight.
(about 320 pages) and of a similar page size and format to the Oxford
Series in Ecology and Evolution. For
more information, please consult Author
Instructions Without being inflexible or unduly rigid, each book is intended to have a chapter plan, as follows:
The list below suggests potential series titles that are immediately compelling.
Ecological and Environmental Physiology of.............
The anticipated readership comprises upper level undergraduate students
taking physiology or ecological physiology courses and graduate students taking
targeted courses in ecolgoical and/or environmental physiology.
Additionally, series titles will be useful to researchers, both
academic and in government/industry/military. This latter, non-academic group is
not to be underestimated, as issues of development, habitat loss, and bioremediation
occupy more and more widespread attention.
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