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This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 61. Chapters: Acclimatization, Acidemia, Active transport, Agonist, Antioxidant, Arterial pulse, Bioelectromagnetics, Bioelectromagnetism, Bioenergetics, Biomechanics, Body fluids, Body temperature, Cerebral perfusion pressure, Comparative physiology, Current clamp, Diapause, Digestion, Dihydropyridine receptor, Dormancy, Electrolytes, Electroreception, Ependyma, Estivation, Excretion, Gastrocolic reflex, Healing, Henry Pickering Bowditch, Heterothermy, Hormones, Human homeostasis, Hypoxemia, Indirect agonist, Ingestion, Interstitial fluid, Involuntary action, Lateral parabrachial nucleus, Limen, Lordosis behavior, Magnesium, Membrane potential, Movement studies, Muscle spindle, Nathaniel Kleitman, Orienting responses, Oxygenation, Passive transport, Patch clamp, Physiological correlates, Psychophysiology, Reflexes, Sensory neuroscience, Serous, Sociophysiology, Stimulus transduction, Stupor, Swallowing, Thermal acclimatization, Thirst, Tonic, Torpor, Vasodilation, Virilization, Vivisection, Water-electrolyte imbalance. Excerpt: Acclimatization or acclimation is the process of an individual organism adjusting to a gradual change in its environment, (such as a change in temperature, humidity, photoperiod, or pH) allowing it to maintain performance across a range of environmental conditions. Acclimatization occurs in a short period of time (days to weeks), and within the organism's lifetime (compare to adaptation). This may be a discrete occurrence or may instead represent part of a periodic cycle, such as a mammal shedding heavy winter fur in favor of a lighter summer coat. Organisms can adjust their morphological, behavioral, physical, and/or biochemical traits in response to changes in their environment. While the capacity to acclimate to novel environments has been well documented in thousands of species, researchers still know very little about how and why organisms acclimate the way that they do. In order to ...
