Extreme measures : the ecological energetics of birds and mammals /

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Main Author: McNab, Brian Keith, 1932- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:

MARC

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505 0 |a Fundamentals -- Basic energetics -- Controversies in the analysis of quantitative data -- Ecological consequences -- A general analysis of BMR -- Small and large -- A diversity of food habits -- Life in the cold -- Life in hot dry and warm moist environments -- Evasions -- Field existences -- Island life -- An active life -- Life in the field -- The limits to geographic distribution -- Population consequences -- A pouched (and egg-laying) life -- Energetics and the population biology of endotherms -- Evolutionary consequences -- The evolution of endothermy -- The restrictions and liberations of history -- The future -- Global issues: the limitation to a long-term future. 
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650 0 |a Warm-blooded animals  |x Evolution. 
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650 0 |a Body temperature  |x Regulation. 
650 0 |a Basal metabolism. 
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