International Thermal Physiology Symposium - Wollongong, Australia, September 2nd-6th, 2001. Foreword

摘要

This special issue of the Journal of Thermal Biology, is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers, representing 25 percent of the papers presented at the International Thermal Physiology Symposium (Wollongong, Australia, September 2"d 6th, 2001), and optionally submitted for publication consideration. We are greatly indebted to the 47 friends and colleagues (listed below), from 15 countries, who generously donated their time to reviewing these manuscripts. The Thermal Physiology Symposium is held every four years and, since 1968, it has been timed to coincide with the International Union of Physiological Sciences Congress. The 2001 meeting was an official IUPS satellite meeting, sponsored by the Thermal Physiology Commission, and endorsed by both the Environmental Physiology and Comparative Physiology Commissions. Delegates from 30 countries submitted over 180 abstracts for this meeting, which included 24 student presentations. Abstracts From this meeting appear in the Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society (volume 32, number 2 Supplement 1). The next IUPS Thermal Physiology meeting will be joint symposia with the Pharmacology oF Thermoregulation (last held in Seville, 1999: Journalof Thermal Bioloqy 24:287 482 and 25:1 196). This combined meeting will be held in Eilat, Israel (September 6th Ilth, 2004; contact: Prof. Michal Horowitz and Prof. Yair Shapiro).