Author: McNab, Brian Keith [1932 - ]
Title: The Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates: A View From Energetics
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, 2002. orig.cloth. 26x18cm, xxvii,576 pp, Spine bumped.. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. A large rubber-stamp to top page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents: Foundations; The Limits to Adaptation; Patterns of Physical Exchange with the Environment; Thermal Exchange with the Environment: The Scaling of Metabolism and Thermal Relations; Adaptation to Temperature Variation: Poikilothermy-Ectothermy; Homeothermy-Endothermy; Material Exchange with the Environment: Osmotic Exchange in Aquatic and Transitional Vertebrates; Water and Salt Exchange in Terrestrial Vertebrates; Adaptation of Gas Exchange; Ecological Energetics: The Energetics of Locomotion; Energy Budgets; Periodicity in the Environment: Balancing Daily and Annual Energy Budgets; Diet and Nutrition; Consequences: The Significance of Energetics for the Population Ecology of Vertebrates; Physiological Limits to the Geographic Distribution of Vertebrates.

Keywords: Vertebrate Physiology, Adaptation, Animal Ecology, Bioenergetics, Animal Ecology, Biology, Vertebrates, ,