Robert Henry Peters

The Ecological Implications of Body Size

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Larger animals eat more, live longer, have larger offspring, but these commonplace observations are rarely seen as a basis for scientific biology. Empirically-based relationships describe body functions as simple functions of body size but these relations have never been organised for use in ecology. This book presents the largest single compilation of interspecific size relations.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 1983
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780521288866
• ISBN-10: 052128886X
• Artikelnr.: 21494777

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. A philosophical introduction
2. A mathematical primer: logarithms, power curves, and correlations
3. Metabolism
4. Physiological correlates of size
5. Temperature and metabolic rate
6. Locomotion
7. Ingestion
8. Production: growth and reproduction
9. Mass flow
10. Animal abundance
11. Other allometric relations
12. Allometric simulation models
13. Explanations
14. Prospectus
Appendixes
References
Index.