Talk:Acclimatization/Archive 1

Please do not auto direct the topic of Pet allergy to the generals.....

 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?as_q=pet+allergy&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en


 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+dog+allergy&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--58.38.47.48 (talk) 09:20, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+cat+allergy&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--58.38.47.48 (talk) 09:21, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+insect+allergy&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--- --58.38.47.48 (talk) 09:56, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+pet+ownership&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_vis=0

What the article is missing is...
Links and references to instructions and advice for acclimatizaing to various environments. This kind of material (besides being directly useful) would provide some excellent technical data to build upon. Sweetfreek (talk) 04:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * That would be WP:NOT. We should stick to what happens rather than giving advice. Wikitravel may have some advice. Smartse (talk) 19:30, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Another useful thing would be to explain how it works, in more detail than "the body makes internal adjustments". All I've found so far is one site that says: "In fully acclimatized individuals, sweating starts faster and the sweat carries less salt and other minerals out of the body. As a result, by sweating more efficiently the body cools down faster. Also there is less demand on the heart and cardiovascular system." http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/etools/08-006/PreventingAndResponding2s5.htm#1 Prospect 2000 (talk) 19:07, 2 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll try searching for some papers on google scholar - it's generally best for things like this even if you can only read the abstracts. Smartse (talk) 19:30, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

This article points only at living organism acclimation however mentions nothing of objects that are non-living that can acclimate to an environment such as a piano/violin/wood/guitar/drums/art/etc... Even the first sentence of the article takes the actual definition of the word acclimation (the real accepted definition is:  1.Become accustomed to a new climate or to new conditions.) and changes it to purely organism related. Sticksonfire (talk) 05:54, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

acclimatization/acclimation distinction
Does this difference really exist? By the morphology of the words, solely, seems to me that it doesn't exist. I've never heard anything about the morpheme/ending "tion" implying something humanly made, neither that "ization" implies naturally occurrence. Bartleby doens't makes a distinction in this sense. I've not searched much further, but seems that the general acception is as synonyms. The distinction is really made sometimes, so I guess that maybe could be noted that some make that distinction, but not just to assert that as "the one" definition. It appears to be some sort of idiosyncratic terminology, such as Lewontin using "construction" instead of "adaptation", but became a bit more popular. I've also found more or less the same distinctionpdf, but with the inversion of the words. --Extremophile 03:53, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Physiologically speaking, there is a very important distinction between acclimation and acclimatisation. Acclimation is a response/series of responses to a any single specific environmental factor changed (in a laboratory setting) while acclimatisation is a series of responses brought about by changes in an organism's natural environment, and as such the "adjustment is made under natural conditions when the organism is subject to the full range of changing environmental factors." This is one of just many links that will take you to a page elaborating on this difference; within the scientific community they two terms are not idiosyncratic but rather describe two subtly different processes. --Isildurian 16:26, 06 October 2009 (BST)

To the layperson I imagine either can suffice and we talk about acclimatization (e.g. to winter). In research usually: More formally then we are interested in the reductionist approach - acclimation (218,000 Google scholar hits) rather than acclimatization (116,000 Google scholar hits). Cypherzero0 (talk) 14:12, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * acclimation refers to specific or known factors:
 * Huner, N., Öquist, G., & Sarhan, F. (1998). Energy balance and acclimation to light and cold. Trends in Plant Science, 3(6), 224-230.
 * acclimatization refers to adapting to a environment (a broad range of factors that usually can't be fully listed):
 * Preece, J. E., & Sutter, E. G. (1990). Acclimatization of micropropagated plants to the greenhouse and field. In Micropropagation (pp. 71-93). Springer Netherlands.